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Inspirational Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- 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 again.
- We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
- 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?
- All new learning looks at first like chaos.
- Experience is always larger than language.
- False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
- When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
- I came to explore the wreck.
- Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
- I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a…
- We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
- Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
- A language is a map of our failures
- War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
- A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
- When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
- It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
- A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you...…
- Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
- The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
- You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
- There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
- I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento