if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
ADRIENNE RICHHow we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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We 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.
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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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