You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
ADRIENNE RICHThe most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Only where there is language is there world.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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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 suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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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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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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