In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
ADRIENNE RICHThere must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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The assumption that women are a subgroup, that men’s culture is the ‘real’ world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the ‘great’ or ‘liberalizing’ periods of history have been the same for women as for men.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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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.
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