When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
ADRIENNE RICHIf you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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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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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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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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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.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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