The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
ADRIENNE RICHThe most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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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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I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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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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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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An honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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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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