No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
ADRIENNE RICHNo woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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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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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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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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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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