Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
ADRIENNE RICH
And 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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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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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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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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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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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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