I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
ADRIENNE RICHEach feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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