Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
ADRIENNE RICHThe vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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