Life on the planet is born of woman.
ADRIENNE RICHIt can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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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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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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