“We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write, on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.”
Adrienne Rich
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“… if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal, that we can understand our past through a male lens–if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
Adrienne Rich
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“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.”
Adrienne Rich
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“Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!”
Adrienne Rich
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“The moment of change is the only poem.”
Adrienne Rich
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“How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.”
Adrienne Rich
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“The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.”
Adrienne Rich
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“We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.”
Adrienne Rich
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