It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
ADRIENNE RICHSince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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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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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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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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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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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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