If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
ADRIENNE RICHThe password is a flicker of an eyelash.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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