A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
ADRIENNE RICHI began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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When someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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