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.
ADRIENNE RICHUntil we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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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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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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