A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
ADRIENNE RICHAs her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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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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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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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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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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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else.
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This is one of the ways in which women’s work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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