What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
ADRIENNE RICHFalse history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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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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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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