Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
ADRIENNE RICHNo woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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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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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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 liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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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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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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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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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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