The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
ADRIENNE RICHA book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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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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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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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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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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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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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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