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Adrienne Rich has 143 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate…
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that…
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,…
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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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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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous…
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we…
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Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and…
— Adam Schiff
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Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for…
— Sarah Schulman
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In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different…
— Aaron Tveit
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It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
— Lyle Lovett
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When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask…
— Richard Lewontin
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I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more…
— Chris Hayes
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First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and…
— Nicholson Baker
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Perhaps you went to bed last night thinking about the overdue bills, the lack of finances, the problematic people and situations you…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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