I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
ADRIENNE RICHIf you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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