Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
ADRIENNE RICHIt will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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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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Since 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.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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