Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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!’
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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