It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
ADRIENNE RICHThe will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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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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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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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.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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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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