Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
ADRIENNE RICHI came to explore the wreck.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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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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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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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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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
ADRIENNE RICH