The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
ADRIENNE RICHTo do something very common, in my own way.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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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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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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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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