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Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985 QUOTES

Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985 QUOTES

1 " Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees "

― Adrienne Rich , Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985

2 " When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you...when someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this non-being, into which you are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard. "

― Adrienne Rich , Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985

3 " I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well. "

― Adrienne Rich , Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985