The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
ADRIENNE RICHThe suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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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. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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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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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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