The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
ADRIENNE RICHThere being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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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 most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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To become a token woman – whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters – is to become something less than a man.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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