… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
ADRIENNE RICHNot biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying.
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No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones.
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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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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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We’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
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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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Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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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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