No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
ADRIENNE RICHUntil we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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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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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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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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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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