No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
ADRIENNE RICH
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics.
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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.
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The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other’s sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.
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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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The moment of change is the only poem.
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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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