It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
ADRIENNE RICHTo “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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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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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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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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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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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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