We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
ADRIENNE RICHI long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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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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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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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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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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