They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
ADRIENNE RICHI am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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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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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.
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Made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language – this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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