The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
ADRIENNE RICH
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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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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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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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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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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.
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