Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
ADRIENNE RICHThe repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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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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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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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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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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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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