There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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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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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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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 choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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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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