I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
ADRIENNE RICHTV has created a kind of false collectivity.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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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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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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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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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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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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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
ADRIENNE RICH