To do something very common, in my own way.
ADRIENNE RICHEach feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. 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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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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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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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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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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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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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 woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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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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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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