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 the prime of your life.
All new learning looks at first like chaos. - Adrienne Rich
All new learning looks at first like chaos.
- Adrienne Rich
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. - Adrienne Rich
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illumina… - Adrienne Rich
The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illumina…
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see. - Adrienne Rich
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own … - Adrienne Rich
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own …
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 … - 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 …
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. - Adrienne Rich
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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 s… - Adrienne Rich
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 s…
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terri… - Adrienne Rich
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terri…
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