{"id":7680,"date":"2015-03-08T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abitcoquettish.wordpress.com\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2021-02-12T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T21:54:08","slug":"what-does-a-woman-need-to-know-adrienne-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlypearl.co\/blog\/what-does-a-woman-need-to-know-adrienne-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does a Woman Need to Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For no woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the shamanesses, the fierce market women of the Ibo Women\u2019s War, the marriage-resting women of silk workers of prerevolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe, the Beguines of the twelfth century, who formed independent women\u2019s orders outside the domination of the Church, the women of the Paris Commune who marched on Versailles, the uneducated housewives of the Women\u2019s Cooperative Guild in England who memorized poetry over the washtub and organized against their oppression as mothers, the women thinkers discredited as \u201cstrident,\u201d \u201cshrill,\u201d \u201ccrazy,\u201d or \u201cdeviant\u201d whose courage to be heretical, to speak their truths, we so badly need to draw upon in our own lives. I believe that every woman\u2019s soul is haunted by the spirits of earlier women who fought for their unmet needs and those of their children and their tribes and their peoples, who refused to accept the prescriptions of a male church and state, who took risks and resisted, as women today \u2014 like Inez Garcia, Yvonne Wanrow, Joan Little, Cassandra Peten \u2014 are fighting their rapists and batterers. Those spirits dwell in us, trying to speak to us. But we can choose to be deaf; and tokenism, the myth of the \u201cspecial\u201d woman, the unmothered Athena sprung from her father\u2019s brow, can deafen us to their voices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014from Adrienne Rich\u2019s 1979 commencement address, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u201cWhat Does a Woman Need to Know?,\u201d at Smith College<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">. \u00a0 . \u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">P.S.: I highly recommend Clarissa Pinkola\u00a0Est\u00e9s&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Women-Wolves-Clarissa-Pinkola-Est%C3%A9s\/dp\/0345409876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Women Who Run With the Wolves<\/em><\/a>. 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