It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
ADRIENNE RICHAnd that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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