To do something very common, in my own way.
ADRIENNE RICHFalse history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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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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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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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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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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