There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
ADRIENNE RICHI’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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Only where there is language is there world.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
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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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Women’s Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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