The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

ADRIENNE RICH

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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

ADRIENNE RICH

The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
ADRIENNE RICH

Magnet National Race
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

ADRIENNE RICH

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
ADRIENNE RICH

Living No Stories Tell
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

ADRIENNE RICH

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
ADRIENNE RICH

Less More Shelter Working
It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

ADRIENNE RICH

It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
ADRIENNE RICH

Consumer Really Target Though
I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

ADRIENNE RICH

I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
ADRIENNE RICH

Collective Liberation Nonviolent
A language is a map of our failures.

ADRIENNE RICH

A language is a map of our failures.
ADRIENNE RICH

Language Map
A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.

ADRIENNE RICH

A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
ADRIENNE RICH

Collective Consciousness Withdrawal
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

ADRIENNE RICH

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
ADRIENNE RICH

Deceiving Self
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.

ADRIENNE RICH

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
ADRIENNE RICH

Changing Cities Mean
Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
ADRIENNE RICH

Abroad Alike Prediction Regardless Weather
Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.

ADRIENNE RICH

Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
ADRIENNE RICH

Cycle Revolutionary Running Still Transformative
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.

ADRIENNE RICH

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
ADRIENNE RICH

Nothing Revolutionary
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

ADRIENNE RICH

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
ADRIENNE RICH

Breath Simple Take
An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

ADRIENNE RICH

An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
ADRIENNE RICH

Delicate Honorable Involved Terrifying Violent
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.

ADRIENNE RICH

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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Enrapture Monster Monstrous Themselves
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.

ADRIENNE RICH

I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
ADRIENNE RICH

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