The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
ADRIENNE RICHWe can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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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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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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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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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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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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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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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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