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.
ADRIENNE RICHWe’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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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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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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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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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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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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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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