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.
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.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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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.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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