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Power Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
- We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it…
- Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
- Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
- We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly…
- 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…
- In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
- Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
- My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after…
- Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach…
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo