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.
ADRIENNE RICHShow us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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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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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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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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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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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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