How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
ADRIENNE RICHIt is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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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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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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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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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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