Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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