Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
ADRIENNE RICHI’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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