This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
ADRIENNE RICHMotherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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