"I am a feminist because I feel endangered,……" — Adrienne Rich
"I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included"
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Adrienne Rich
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142 Quotes by Adrienne Rich
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us…
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose…
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not…
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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal…
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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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Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'
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If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
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When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.
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The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
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Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
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Life is never easy for those who dream.
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I hope you're all Republicans.
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