A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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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 moment of change is the only poem.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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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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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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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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