The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
ADRIENNE RICHWhat would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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There being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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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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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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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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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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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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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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