Adrienne Rich Quotes, Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes

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

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

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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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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.

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Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

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

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All new learning looks at first like chaos.

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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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