The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
ADRIENNE RICHMuch male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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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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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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 lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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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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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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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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