A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
ADRIENNE RICHLove, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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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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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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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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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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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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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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