Adrienne Rich Quotes, Mother Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

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motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

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"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

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

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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.

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A language is a map of our failures

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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

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Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

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

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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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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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