In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
ADRIENNE RICHThe moment of change is the only poem.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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I 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.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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