Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
ADRIENNE RICHExperience is always larger than language.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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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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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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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.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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