The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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