It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
ADRIENNE RICHWhatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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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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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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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 women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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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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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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