Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
ADRIENNE RICHIf poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Life on the planet is born of woman.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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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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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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An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”- 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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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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