Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
ADRIENNE RICHNo one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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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 liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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