Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
ADRIENNE RICHThe 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Only where there is language is there world.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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