But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
ADRIENNE RICHFreud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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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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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 don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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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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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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