I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
ADRIENNE RICHWe who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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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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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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