What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
ADRIENNE RICHWe who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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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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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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Waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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