They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
ADRIENNE RICHFalse history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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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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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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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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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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