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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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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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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.
ADRIENNE RICH

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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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