Adrienne Rich Quotes
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
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I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous.
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It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
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You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
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I have heard that man can acquire superhuman powers through it and perform miracles. I saw a man who had brought a ghost under control. The ghost used to procure various things for his master. What shall I do with superhuman powers? Can one realize God through them? If God is not realized then everything becomes false.
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Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
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He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.
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I'm stubborn, which is not necessarily admirable.
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In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.
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I definitely pack coffee if I'm going someplace where it might not be available. When I went to Afghanistan in 2011, I brought a bunch of instant coffee. I didn't need to do that, of course, because army people drink industrial-strength coffee and have it going 24/7.
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I want to be remembered as a star.
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We're going to have to find a way to serve our constituents and our taxpayers better and quicker and more accurately with fewer workers. I'm convinced we can do it and we don't have a choice.
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Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?
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Being in Silicon Valley makes me strict when it comes to my children's technology use. I am surrounded by it all day, so I try to avoid it when I get home. I set screen-time limits, because I think it's good to diversify activities.
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Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly for the Lord and not for man, because our true identity is in Him.
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History is like a constantly changing tree.
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Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
