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.
ADRIENNE RICHEach 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Only where there is language is there world.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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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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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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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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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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