Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
ADRIENNE RICHI touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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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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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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