Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
ADRIENNE RICHThe vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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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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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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