Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
ADRIENNE RICHHow shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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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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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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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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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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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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