Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
ADRIENNE RICH
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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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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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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