I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
ADRIENNE RICHWe’ve learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual – all of that fermenting together.
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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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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants.
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Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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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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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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