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I 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.

Adrienne Rich

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Forever Mean Taking Talk Trip
But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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Envying Imagination Imagine Place Possibilities Struggle Survival Unresigned
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Choose Intelligence Love Splitting Time
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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Exercise Goes History Learning Music Natural Simple Study Told
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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Ambivalence Blissful Gratification Murderous Nerves Resentment Suffering
There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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Being Daily Exile Migration Rending Riddled Search Shared Silence Work
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Able Anger Except Inward Nail Rusted Touch Women
The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Body Feeling Political Touch
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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Begin Brutalized Dignity Empowering Hope People Powerless Society Transform Trying
When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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Carpet Closely Look Multiple Threads Tiny Underside Unseen Weaver
That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Country Failure Feel Good Helping Measure Represented Themselves War
The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Apparated Asking Crucial Movement Political Voice Women
It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Choice People Power Sacred Transformation
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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Authorities Authority Certain Face Life Power Prime Rarely Woman
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Home Scenery Suffer Suffering
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness.
ADRIENNE RICH

Children Experience Exquisite Feeling Most Suffering

I 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.

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