I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines.
ADRIENNE RICHif 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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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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Even where love has run thin the child’s soul musters strength… the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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