Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
ADRIENNE RICHWe lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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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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When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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