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Adrienne Rich

Much 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.
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Becoming Being Breast Cease Fear Feminism Human Male Man Mother Provide Son Women
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Conscious Cutting Interval Light Profane Revelation Self Stopped Time
Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Changing Language Mean Reality Writing
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Abusive Begin Heal Individual Psychic Society Stories Want
To do something very common, in my own way.
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Common My Own Something Way
For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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Capacity Forbidden Mean Remind Something Trying Way Woman
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Counted Down Inspirational Sit Warrior Weep
The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Body Erected Patriarchy Terrain Woman
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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Burn Desire Kill Living might Poem Remind Revolutionary Theorize Wick
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Liquid Poetry Stone Voice Wear Writing
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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Complexity Increasing One System Thing Truth
It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Choice People Power Sacred Transformation
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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Cutting Enough Flesh Open Ripped Scar
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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Condition Education Health Less More Poetry Shelter Thinking Working
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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Belong Death Famine Pain Persuade Suicide Wose
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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Children Day Inspiring Mother Strike Tied Unionize Worker

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