When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
ADRIENNE RICHI am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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