The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
ADRIENNE RICHTo seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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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.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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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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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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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 withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women’s movement, for instance, becoming “support-groups” or therapy groups.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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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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