It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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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Strangers are an endangered species.
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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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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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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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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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn’t there a difficulty of saying ‘we’? You cannot speak for me.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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