I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
ADRIENNE RICHWar is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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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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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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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. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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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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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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