We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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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.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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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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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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