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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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

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Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.

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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

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But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

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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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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

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

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There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

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I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

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