No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
ADRIENNE RICHThe unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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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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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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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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