Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
ADRIENNE RICHThe liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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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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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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