I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
ADRIENNE RICHA president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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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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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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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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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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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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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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