Adrienne Rich Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Warrior Quotes

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

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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; 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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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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What we see, we see and seeing is changing

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I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

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