But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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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 most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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