Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
ADRIENNE RICHI don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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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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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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