Quotes by Thinking Getting your nails done with your man is so much fun. Having them help you out choosing the color, I love that. I think it's great to get a man's perspective on nails and to sit there to get your nails done with him. Adrienne Bailon funmenthinking I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy. Adrienne Barbeau sexybodythinking But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety. Adrienne Barbeau varietyrolesthinking A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. Adrienne Rich monsterssleepthinking The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle. Adrienne Rich twopeoplethinking 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. Adrienne Rich warriorresponsibilitythinking If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. Adrienne Rich one-directionriversthinking I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. Adrienne Rich health-educationpoetrythinking We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative. Adrienne Rich romancerunningthinking I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. Adrienne Rich dignityartthinking How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and instantly gratifying. To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention. Adrienne Rich intelligentlyingthinking Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence Adrienne Rich darksleepthinking Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision. Adrienne Rich girlmenthinking Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own. Adrienne Rich justicepastthinking Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own. Adrienne Rich theatrevoicethinking In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups. Adrienne Rich supportneedsthinking I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem - just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc. Adrienne Rich spacebridgesthinking I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition. Adrienne Rich gaymenthinking I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. Adrienne Rich academicworldthinking I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two. Adrienne Rich twomeanthinking«3637383940414243444546»
