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.
ADRIENNE RICHThe more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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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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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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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