A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
ADRIENNE RICHFalse history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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