No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
ADRIENNE RICHWe need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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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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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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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.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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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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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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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 work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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