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Adrienne Rich Quotes and Quotations
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities. Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. We must use what we have to invent what we desire. The moment of change is the only poem. The moment of change is the only poem. Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working. |