The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
ADRIENNE RICHIt is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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