The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
ADRIENNE RICHEvery real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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