When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
ADRIENNE RICHExperience is always larger than language.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- 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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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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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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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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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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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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