There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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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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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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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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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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“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?
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