There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
ADRIENNE RICHCourage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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