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Adrienne Rich Quotes

Adrienne Rich quotes

American Poet May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012

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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement. Adrienne Rich
Re-vision? the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction? is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath. It..."
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath. It will be short, it will not be simple Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "There is a cop who is both prowler and father: he comes from..."
There is a cop who is both prowler and father: he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers, had certain ideals. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them."
I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening..."
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. Adrienne Rich
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. Adrienne Rich
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men... Adrienne Rich
My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed. I have to cast my lot with thosewho age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. Adrienne Rich
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "The moment of change is the only poem."
The moment of change is the only poem. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid..."
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays? to..."
This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays? to give a ground of meaning to our pain? Adrienne Rich
No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich quote: "What we see, we see and seeing is changing"
What we see, we see and seeing is changing Adrienne Rich

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