Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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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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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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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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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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