Adrienne Rich

Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

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  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    need to understand how a place on the map is also a place in history within which as a woman, a Jew, a lesbian, a feminist I am created and trying to create
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    The armed forces as the extreme embodiment of the patriarchal family
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    The movement for change is a changing movement, changing itself, demasculinizing itself, de-Westernizing itself, becoming a critical mass that is saying in so many different voices, languages, gestures, actions: It must change; we ourselves can change it
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    Whatever circumscribes or mutilates our feelings makes it more difficult to act, keeps our actions reactive, repetitive: abstract thinking, narrow tribal loyalties, every kind of self-righteousness, the arrogance of believing ourselves at the center.
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    We are not urged to help create a more human society here in response to the ones we are taught to hate and dread. Discourse itself is frozen at this level
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    But we are not invited to consider the butcheries of Stalinism, the terrors of the Russian counter-revolution alongside the butcheries of white supremacism and Manifest Destiny
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    I began to experience the meaning of my whiteness as a point of location for which I needed to take responsibility.
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    To say “my body” reduces the temptation to grandiose assertions
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    that “always” blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true?
  • Fernanda Monsalvo Basalduahas quoted3 years ago
    “always” blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true
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