Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
ADRIENNE RICHEvery poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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