Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
ADRIENNE RICHThe revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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