446 Quotes by Adrienne Rich

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    And yet, protest it if we will,Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch upon those starry skeinsAnd drives us out of doors at nightTo gaze at anagrams of light.

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    We stayed mute and disloyalbecause we were afraidI would have touched my fingersto where your breasts had beenbut we never did such things

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    how can I reconcile this passionwith our modestyyour calvinist heritagemy girlhood frozen into formshow can I go on this missionwithout youyou, who might have told meeverything you feel is true?

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    If I could let you know - two women together is a worknothing in civilization ha made simple,two people together is a workheroic in its ordinariness, the slow-picked, halting traverse of a pitchwhere the fiercest attention becomes routine- look at the faces of those who have chosen it.

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    I would have loved to live in a worldof women and men gailyin collusion with green leaves, stalks,building mineral cities, transparent domes,little huts of woven grasseach with its own pattern—a conspiracy to coexistwith the Crab Nebula, the explodinguniverse, the Mind—

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    If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are disturbed as to how, by, and against whom wealth and political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wanting to act with others, to "do something," you have much in common with the writers of the three essays in Manifesto.

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