That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then, and perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away. β¨ Adrienne Rich (1993). Your Native Land, Your Life, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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- Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. β¨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded β¦ βΆ
- Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
- 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. β¨ Adrienne Rich (1976). Of woman born motherhood β¦ βΆ
- What kind of beast would turn its life into words? β¨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company
- We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege β¨ Adrienne Rich (1993). Your Native Land, Your Life, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company
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