Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
ADRIENNE RICH
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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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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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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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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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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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The 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.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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