The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
—Adrienne Rich
Topics: Revolution
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 unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
—Adrienne Rich
Topics: Mankind, Man, Body
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
—Adrienne Rich
Topics: Women, Feminism
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
—Adrienne Rich
The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
—Adrienne Rich
Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
—Adrienne Rich
Topics: Assumptions
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
—Adrienne Rich
Topics: Silence, Words, Character, One liners, Lies, Truth
False history gets made all day, any day; the truth of the new is never on the news.
—Adrienne Rich
Topics: History, News
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events.
—Adrienne Rich
Topics: The Past, Past, Events
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