To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
ADRIENNE RICHIn a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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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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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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