Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
ADRIENNE RICHIt can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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