Adrienne Rich Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Time Quotes

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups.

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Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

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The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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To do something very common, in my own way.

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