Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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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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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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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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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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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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