Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
ADRIENNE RICHOne line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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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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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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I came to explore the wreck.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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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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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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We must use what we have to invent what we 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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