The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
ADRIENNE RICHSexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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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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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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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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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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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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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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