Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
ADRIENNE RICHThe 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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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’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
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