As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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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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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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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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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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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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Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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