he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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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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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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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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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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