It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
ADRIENNE RICHThe mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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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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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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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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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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