Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
ADRIENNE RICHArt, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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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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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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