What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
ADRIENNE RICHAny woman’s death diminishes me.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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