There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
ADRIENNE RICHResponsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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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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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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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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