TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
ADRIENNE RICHThe woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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