When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
ADRIENNE RICHIt is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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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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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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