Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
ADRIENNE RICHIn America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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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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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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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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