If, 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.
ADRIENNE RICHI think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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We have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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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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