The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
ADRIENNE RICHIt iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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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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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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