When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
ADRIENNE RICHI choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single “I” or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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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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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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