That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
ADRIENNE RICHOur personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it’s the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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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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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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