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

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

American Poet Events

A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.

Lying is done with words and also with silence. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

American Poet Lies And Lying

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

American Poet Force

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her - Adrienne Rich Quotes

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news - Adrienne Rich Quotes

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

Moon Sea

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

American Poet Consciousness

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

Honor Politicians And Politics

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

American Poet Children

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 patriarchical i - Adrienne Rich 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 patriarchical i

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Art Arts And Artists

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. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

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.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

American Poet Honesty

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. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

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.

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! - Adrienne Rich Quotes

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

Cries And Crying Grief

Life on the planet is born of woman. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

Life on the planet is born of woman.

American Poet Life

The moment of change is the only poem - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The moment of change is the only poem

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women.Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women.Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

Women

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

American Poet Passion

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

Consciousness Women

It's as though she was able to convert her rage to live under this verdict of HIV into an art that was actually equal to it. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

It's as though she was able to convert her rage to live under this verdict of HIV into an art that was actually equal to it.

Art

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

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.

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as 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. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as 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.

Open Air Museum. Seen from a train, stopped / As by design, to bring us / Face to face with the flag of our true country: / Violet-yellow, black-violet, / Its heart sucked by slow fire / O my America / This then your desire? - Adrienne Rich Quotes

Open Air Museum. Seen from a train, stopped / As by design, to bring us / Face to face with the flag of our true country: / Violet-yellow, black-violet, / Its heart sucked by slow fire / O my America / This then your desire?

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

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

American Poet Pride

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women.
Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

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

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.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Love Sad Break Up Love Sad Love

The moment of change is the only poem. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The moment of change is the only poem.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The word ''revolution'' itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the ''revolution'' of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the ''revolving door'' of a politics which has ''liberated'' women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance. - Adrienne Rich Quotes

The word ''revolution'' itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the ''revolution'' of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the ''revolving door'' of a politics which has ''liberated'' women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

Revolutions And Revolutionaries

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