It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
ADRIENNE RICHIt is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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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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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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