When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
ADRIENNE RICH
Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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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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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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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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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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