"The moment when a feeling enters the body/……" — Adrienne Rich

"The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political"

— 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…
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the…
Life on the planet is born of woman.
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose…
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not…
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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