We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
ADRIENNE RICHWeather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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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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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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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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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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