It isn't that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need to tell you.
It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us.
The possibility of life between us.
from On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne Rich
Selected Prose 1966-1978
