A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
ADRIENNE RICHThey 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…?
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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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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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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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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We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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