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.
ADRIENNE RICH“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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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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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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