We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
ADRIENNE RICHIf, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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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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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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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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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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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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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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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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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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