Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
ADRIENNE RICHTo seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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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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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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I 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.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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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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We have lived with violence far too long.
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