But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
ADRIENNE RICHMade difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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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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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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You have to give your art everything you can – I don’t mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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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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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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