Adrienne Rich Quotes, Children Quotes, Believe Quotes

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

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I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

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

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

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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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

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Any woman's death diminishes me.

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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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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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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

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