It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
ADRIENNE RICHLies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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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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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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