There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
ADRIENNE RICHYoung people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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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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Only where there is language is there world.
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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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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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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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