Adrienne Rich Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Pride Quotes

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.

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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

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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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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

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Strangers are an endangered species.

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We have lived with violence far too long.

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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Any woman's death diminishes me.

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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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