Lying is done with words and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICHI think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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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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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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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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