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.
ADRIENNE RICHAll new learning looks at first like chaos.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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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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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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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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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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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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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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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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