“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
ADRIENNE RICHI am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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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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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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