In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
ADRIENNE RICHOnly to have a grief equal to all these tears!
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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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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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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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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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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