Life on the planet is born of woman.
ADRIENNE RICHThe decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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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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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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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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