Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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