When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
ADRIENNE RICHA patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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