The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
ADRIENNE RICHMy heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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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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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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