I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
ADRIENNE RICHOnly to have a grief equal to all these tears!
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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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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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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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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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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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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