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.
ADRIENNE RICH
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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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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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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