It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
ADRIENNE RICHAnd perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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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 real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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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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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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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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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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