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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.

Adrienne Rich

There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
ADRIENNE RICH

Artist Boundaries Bursting Channel Choiceless Creative Enormous Hunger Merely System Working
The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Centuries Country Marriage Revolution Witch Worker
“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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Asked Clinch Condition Group Heal Human Kind Longer Milieu Support
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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Change Continuity Dialectric Instructive Life Light People Personal
No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Common Dream Language Room Sleep
It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Alive Awakening Confusing Consciousness Disorienting Exhilarating Inspirational Pain Painful Time
When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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Healing Making One Space Tell Truth Woman
I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Don't Learning Trust Use
The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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Damage Done Map Prevail Purpose Treasure Word
Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Lonelier Marriage Solitude
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
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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Citizen Class Generation Grief Magnet National Race Relationship Wall War
It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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Break Human Important Isolation Justice
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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Coming Imagine Increasingly Poetry Position Theatre Thinking Voice
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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Bodies Body Control Fully Human Intelligence Life Natural Order Physical Unity
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
ADRIENNE RICH

Fermenting Intellectual Interest Kind Moral People Poetry Political Sensual Sexual Together

There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.

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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.

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