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Life Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- Life on the planet is born of woman.
- They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide,…
- Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In…
- We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly…
- In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the…
- The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human…
- Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect…
- The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs…
- in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel…
- You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
- What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
- To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical…
- The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
- 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…
- Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way…
- Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle