There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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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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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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he ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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