Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
ADRIENNE RICHTV has created a kind of false collectivity.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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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.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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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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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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