"In a world where language and naming are……" — Adrienne Rich
"In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence."
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Adrienne Rich
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142 Quotes by Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich has 142 quotes on this site.
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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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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the…
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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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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be…
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High thoughts must have high language.
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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War is what happens when language fails.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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