Adrienne Rich Quotes, Thinking Quotes, World Quotes

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

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A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

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How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

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Strangers are an endangered species.

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Experience is always larger than language.

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

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I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

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We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

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Life on the planet is born of woman.

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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

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