"When someone with the authority of a teacher,……" — Adrienne Rich
"When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard."
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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I cannot stand authority.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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