Adrienne Rich Quotes, Reality Quotes, Mad Quotes

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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... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.

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What we see, we see and seeing is changing

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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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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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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

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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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"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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

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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

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