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.
ADRIENNE RICHI am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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I came to explore the wreck.
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