If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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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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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.
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Even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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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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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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“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.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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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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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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I’d call it love if love didn’t take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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