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.
ADRIENNE RICHThere 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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