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

Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
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Peace Activist
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Baltimore
Maryland
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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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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming support-groups or therapy groups.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single I or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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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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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
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