Life on the planet is born of woman.
ADRIENNE RICHResponsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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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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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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