The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
ADRIENNE RICHThe worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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Each 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.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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