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.
ADRIENNE RICHThe connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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