"Much male fear of feminism is the fear……" — Adrienne Rich
"Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him."
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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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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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