Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
ADRIENNE RICHTo conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class.
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.
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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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The so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
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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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I came to explore the wreck.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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