Lying is done with words and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICHThe words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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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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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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