I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
ADRIENNE RICHChange is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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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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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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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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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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