Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
ADRIENNE RICHBut before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Only where there is language is there world.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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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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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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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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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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