You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
ADRIENNE RICHArt and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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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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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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