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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.

Adrienne Rich

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 RICH

Art Connected Isolation Literature Loneliness People Sex
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Day Historical History New News Truth
I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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Adopted Country Exotic Myself Mysticisms People Suspicious Tendency Understanding White
… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Dreamt Giving Room World
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Art Artifice Cheating Honesty Truth
I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Began Feel Heard Movement Resonating Voice
Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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Cost Forcibly Heterosexuality Imposed Poverty Subliminally Woman
No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Common Dream Language Room Sleep
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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Art Artist Channel Clogged Concern Merely Misdirected Song Struggle Temporary
In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
ADRIENNE RICH

Bringing Console Create Sustain Vision Woman
What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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Amid Country Dysfunction Finding Increasing Society
Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Great Passion Poetry Survival Theme Women
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Forever Mean Taking Talk Trip
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Feeling Inspirational Pride Tricky
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
ADRIENNE RICH

Connectedness Creativity Human Love Sense Sexually
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
ADRIENNE RICH

Breath Heart Short Simple Take

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