To 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.
ADRIENNE RICHhe ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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