The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
ADRIENNE RICHThe difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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