The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
ADRIENNE RICHUntil we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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