I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
ADRIENNE RICH
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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“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.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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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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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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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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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
ADRIENNE RICH