Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
ADRIENNE RICHWomen’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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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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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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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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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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