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From Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked…
- The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go…
- There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity…
- I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
- Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
- The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to…
- The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat…
- Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for…
- If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of…
- Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever…
- To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved…
- If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with…
- The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we…
- I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
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