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Adrienne Rich Quotes

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes Picture Quote #1

The true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language Picture Quote #1

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political Picture Quote #1

Lying is done with words and also with silence Picture Quote #1

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind Picture Quote #1

Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust Picture Quote #1

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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious Picture Quote #1

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery Picture Quote #1

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire Picture Quote #1

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth Picture Quote #1

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors Picture Quote #1

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness Picture Quote #1

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves Picture Quote #1

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know Picture Quote #1

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know Picture Quote #1

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality Picture Quote #1

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths Picture Quote #1

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing Picture Quote #1

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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope Picture Quote #1

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence Picture Quote #1

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves Picture Quote #1

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women Picture Quote #1

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe Picture Quote #1

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events Picture Quote #1

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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful Picture Quote #1

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet Picture Quote #1

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers Picture Quote #1

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail Picture Quote #1

I stroke the beam of my lamp slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed Picture Quote #1

Re-vision the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival Picture Quote #1

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The true nature of poetry. The drive to connect. The dream of a common language (Adrienne Rich Quotes) War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Lying is done with words and also with silence (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth (Adrienne Rich Quotes) There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves (Adrienne Rich Quotes) These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality (Adrienne Rich Quotes) When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths (Adrienne Rich Quotes) When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope (Adrienne Rich Quotes) In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence (Adrienne Rich Quotes) One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events (Adrienne Rich Quotes) It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet (Adrienne Rich Quotes) The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail (Adrienne Rich Quotes) I stroke the beam of my lamp slowly along the flank of something more permanent than fish or weed (Adrienne Rich Quotes) Re-vision the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival (Adrienne Rich Quotes)

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