You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
ADRIENNE RICHNot biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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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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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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