How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
ADRIENNE RICHStrangers are an endangered species.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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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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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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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 women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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