Adrienne Rich Quotes, Winning Quotes, Men Quotes

To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

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

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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

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A language is a map of our failures

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

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...you look at me like an emergency

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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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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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All new learning looks at first like chaos.

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

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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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Only where there is language is there world.

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

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