A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
ADRIENNE RICHMuch male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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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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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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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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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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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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