Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
ADRIENNE RICHHeterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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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’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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