When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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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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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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The 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.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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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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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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