The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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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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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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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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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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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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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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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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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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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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