There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
ADRIENNE RICHPassion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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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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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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