All new learning looks at first like chaos.
ADRIENNE RICHIn such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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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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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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