The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
ADRIENNE RICHArt means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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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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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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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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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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