“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
ADRIENNE RICHJust as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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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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The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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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 don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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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 I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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