The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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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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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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