I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
ADRIENNE RICHIn America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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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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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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