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All Quotes by author - Adrienne Rich
" 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. "
Tell
Desire
Burn
" Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. "
Truth
Art
Cheating
" A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. "
Sleeps
Woman
Thinking
" Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. "
Journey
Past
Memories
" False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. "
Never
New
News
" I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. "
Back
You
Know
" It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. "
Time
Painful
Alive
" 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. "
Rejection
Way
Women
" Life on the planet is born of woman. "
Woman
Born
Life
" Lying is done with words and also with silence. "
Silence
Words
Also
" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "
Poetry
Relationship
Power
" Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. "
Tricky
Pride
Feeling
" The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. "
Planet
Women
Most
" The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. "
Mind
Out
Tell
" The moment of change is the only poem. "
Only
Poetry
Moment
" 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. "
Mother
Life
Love
" 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. "
Society
Far
Change
" 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. "
Children
Go
Mothers
" 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? "
Us
Death
Life
" 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. "
Language
Old
Vision
" When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. "
More
Creating
Her
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