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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
Poet
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
Adrienne Riche
Powerlessness
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Ignorance
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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