Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
ADRIENNE RICHChange is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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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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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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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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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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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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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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A language is a map of our failures.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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