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

#Feminist #Connections #Force
“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.”
-- Adrienne Rich

#Gay #Men #Thinking
“We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”
-- Adrienne Rich

#Desire #Use
“The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.”
-- Adrienne Rich

#People #Political #Intellectual
“We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
-- Adrienne Rich

#People #Way
“Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.”
-- Adrienne Rich

#Destiny #Ideas #Different
“I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child”
-- Adrienne Rich

#Children #Names #Mind
“I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.”
-- Adrienne Rich

#Mean #Thinking #Two
“One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.”
-- Adrienne Rich

#Art #Skins #Body

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