I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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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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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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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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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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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