To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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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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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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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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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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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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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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