We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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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A language is a map of our failures.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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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 mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
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There is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
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