I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
ADRIENNE RICHYou must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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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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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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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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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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