The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
ADRIENNE RICHI 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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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 repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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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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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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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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