If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
ADRIENNE RICHAny woman’s death diminishes me.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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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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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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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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