Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

Adrienne Rich's Popular Quotes

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

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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…

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

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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 …

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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 …

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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

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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…

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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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