Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Adrienne Rich

Access Direct Life Taboo

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Adrienne Rich

Cycles Process Vision Remains

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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Adrienne Rich

Burn Live Living Desire

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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Adrienne Rich

Survival Passion Battle Child

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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Adrienne Rich

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty

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Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

Adrienne Rich

Citizens Activism Public Laws

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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

Adrienne Rich

State Violence Erased Concrete

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I believe in the establishment of a state with strong christian values and in which even the weakest, the poorest and the most vulnerable are catered for, protected and well-looked after. Some call this

Femi Fani-Kayode

Believe Weakest Christian Poorest

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I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

Femi Fani-Kayode

Tribalist Intimate Igbo Lady

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I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage

Femi Fani-Kayode

Suspect Reuben Abati Sex Marriage

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Simply put the coronavirus is the appetiser whilst the deployment of 5G is the main course and the introduction of the vaccine will be the glorious dessert. This indeed is a deadly meal

Femi Fani-Kayode

Coronavirus Appetiser Vaccine Deadly

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I have contempt for the Buharists and I pity Nigeria.

Femi Fani-Kayode

Contempt Buharist Pity Nigeria

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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Barbara Kingsolver

Terms Like That Humane

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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries Are The One

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The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Barbara Kingsolver

The Truth Needs So

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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

We Are Animals Born

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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wats Elections Both Are

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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

Surprising How Much Memory

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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

Kills You To Watch

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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Barbara Kingsolver

Few People Know Clearly

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

Pain Reaches Heart Electrical

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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Barbara Kingsolver

What Keeps You Going

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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Barbara Kingsolver

People's Dreams Are Made

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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

The Very Least You

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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

What You Loose Blindness

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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it.

Barbara Kingsolver

The House Important Thing

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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory Is Complicated Thing

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes The Strength Motherhood

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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fearsome Mind Throw My

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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stop Minute Right Where

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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Barbara Kingsolver

Hopeful To Embrace One

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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Barbara Kingsolver

Small Change Wonders These

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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

Best Work Do My

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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

I Never Think Anything

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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction Essays Can Create

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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Barbara Kingsolver

What A Writer Do

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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Barbara Kingsolver

When You Pick Up

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy Really The Opposite

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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

Barbara Kingsolver

Seems Very Safe Me

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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

Barbara Kingsolver

There's Always Part Your

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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Not Pretending Be Ingenious

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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Barbara Kingsolver

Don't Understand How Good

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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Barbara Kingsolver

Good Novels Fiction Creates

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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

Literature Sucks You Into

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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every Time Write New

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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Count All The Way

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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Barbara Kingsolver

Always Seen The World

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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Barbara Kingsolver

Grew Up Aware All

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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

Suppose That My Central

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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Barbara Kingsolver

Home Growing Up Weren't

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1625 Essayist Quotes

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Adrienne Rich

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Adrienne Rich

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Adrienne Rich

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Adrienne Rich

At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

Adrienne Rich

I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

Adrienne Rich

I believe in the establishment of a state with strong christian values and in which even the weakest, the poorest and the most vulnerable are catered for, protected and well-looked after. Some call this

Femi Fani-Kayode

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady.

Femi Fani-Kayode

I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage

Femi Fani-Kayode

Simply put the coronavirus is the appetiser whilst the deployment of 5G is the main course and the introduction of the vaccine will be the glorious dessert. This indeed is a deadly meal

Femi Fani-Kayode

Femi Fani-Kayode

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Barbara Kingsolver

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Barbara Kingsolver

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Barbara Kingsolver

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

Barbara Kingsolver

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

Barbara Kingsolver

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Barbara Kingsolver

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Barbara Kingsolver

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Barbara Kingsolver

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Barbara Kingsolver

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Barbara Kingsolver

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Barbara Kingsolver