A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
ADRIENNE RICHI 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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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.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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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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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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