I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
ADRIENNE RICHWhat I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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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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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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It is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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