The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
ADRIENNE RICHIf we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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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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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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