An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen 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
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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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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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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