How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
ADRIENNE RICHFor now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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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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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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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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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Only where there is language is there world.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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