Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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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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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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