Adrienne Rich Quotes, Peace Quotes, Ubuntu Quotes

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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.

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When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

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I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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