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.
ADRIENNE RICHSince we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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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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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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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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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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