Adrienne Rich Quotes, Life Quotes

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

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I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

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

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

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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

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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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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.

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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

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