Adrienne Rich Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Believe Quotes

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

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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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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.

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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

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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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... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

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Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

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