Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
ADRIENNE RICHTo 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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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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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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