Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
ADRIENNE RICHThe liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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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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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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