We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
ADRIENNE RICHThe 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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