We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen 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
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
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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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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.
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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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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