Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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