"There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is……" — Adrienne Rich
"There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity."
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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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More Complexity Quotes
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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict…
— Emily Blunt
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
— Paul Cezanne
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of…
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