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Quotation by Adrienne Rich
The lie of compulsory female heterosexuality today afflicts not just feminist scholarship, but every profession, every reference work, every curriculum, every organizing attempt, every relationship or conversation over which it hovers. It creates, specifically, a profound falseness, hypocrisy, and hysteria in the heterosexual dialogue, for every heterosexual relationship is lived in the queasy strobe light of that lie. However we choose to identify ourselves, however we find ourselves labeled, it flickers across and distorts our lives.
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet, essayist, and lesbian feminist. Blood, Bread and Poetry, ch. 3 (1986).
Written in 1980, not long after Rich had begun publicly to acknowledge her lesbianism. She had once been married and was the mother of three sons.
Written in 1980, not long after Rich had begun publicly to acknowledge her lesbianism. She had once been married and was the mother of three sons.
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