False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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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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Experience is always larger than language.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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