How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
ADRIENNE RICHHow we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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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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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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