There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
ADRIENNE RICHWe might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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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 decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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