It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
ADRIENNE RICHSince we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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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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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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To “see the light” too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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The woman’s body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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