A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

ADRIENNE RICH

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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.

ADRIENNE RICH

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

ADRIENNE RICH

That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
ADRIENNE RICH

Feel Helping Represented Themselves
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

ADRIENNE RICH

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
ADRIENNE RICH

Artifice Cheating
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

ADRIENNE RICH

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
ADRIENNE RICH

Complacency Disregarded Erased Extent Numbness Self Selves Unvoiced
It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’

ADRIENNE RICH

It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
ADRIENNE RICH

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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.

ADRIENNE RICH

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
ADRIENNE RICH

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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.

ADRIENNE RICH

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
ADRIENNE RICH

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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.

ADRIENNE RICH

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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Idea Raised Succumb Tech
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

ADRIENNE RICH

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
ADRIENNE RICH

Defined Fought Recovery
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.

ADRIENNE RICH

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.
ADRIENNE RICH

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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.

ADRIENNE RICH

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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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.

ADRIENNE RICH

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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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.

ADRIENNE RICH

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.
ADRIENNE RICH

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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

ADRIENNE RICH

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
ADRIENNE RICH

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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.

ADRIENNE RICH

The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
ADRIENNE RICH

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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

ADRIENNE RICH

If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
ADRIENNE RICH

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