When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
ADRIENNE RICHThese scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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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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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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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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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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