Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
ADRIENNE RICHIn [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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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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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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