Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
ADRIENNE RICHI’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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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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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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