Adrienne Rich Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, Mirrors, Individual Strength

• When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.

  Adrienne Rich

  Teacher, Mirrors, Psychics

• I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

  Adrienne Rich

  Faces, Authority, Prime

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