How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
ADRIENNE RICH
he 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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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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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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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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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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