I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
ADRIENNE RICHThe women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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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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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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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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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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