Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
ADRIENNE RICHhe ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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