Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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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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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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A language is a map of our failures.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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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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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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