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.
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 most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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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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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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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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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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