I feel more helpless with you than without you.
ADRIENNE RICHIf I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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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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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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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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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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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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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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