The phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin ---for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over and over?did we invent him, conjure himover the charring log, nights, late, in the snowbound cabindid we dream or scry his facein the liquid embers, the man-who-would-dare-to-know-us? It was never the rapist:it was the brother, lost, the comrade/twin whose palmwould bear a lifeline like our own:decisive, arrowy, forked-lightning of insatiate desire It was never the crude pestle, the blindramrod we were after:merely a fellow-creaturewith natural resources equal to our own. Adrienne Rich
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I think this quote is very true, about people using others to get what they want while they themselves are not willing to sacrifice anything for someone else. They are always looking for the easy way out.

Source: The Dream Of A Common Language

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