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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.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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accustom, accustomed, assume, believed, code, coded, coding, contempt, crack, endlessly, expecting, honor, indifference, inherent, in a higher place, places, political, Politicians, scandals, statements, The Code, The Statement, to a higher place
«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.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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bonds, breakdown, Breakdowns, compassionate, homes, strikes, strike home, tied, unionize, wildcat, worker
«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»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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edge, Edge of, embodiments, endanger, endangered, endangers, feminist, feminist movement, insofar, movement, physically, psychically, The Embodiment, The Women
«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.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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assumes, blood relation, channel, clogged, clogging, disturbances, falsely, local, mystical, relation to, supernatural, unrelated
«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.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
alternation, ambivalence, blissful, edged, exquisite, gratification, guiltless, intolerance, monster, murderous, nerves, raw, resentment, selfishness, tenderness, The Suffering, tiny
«Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| About:
Art,
Cheating
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, cheating, work through
«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.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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avid, brow, castrate, castrated, castrates, castrating, cave, controlling, guilt-ridden, helpless, infant, lap, martyred, nourish, patriarchy, provoking, ridden, snakes, swamp, swamps, the Son, The Swamp
«Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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equal to
«Life on the planet is born of woman.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
«The moment of change is the only poem»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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poem