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Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and radical feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century".
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“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”
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“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”
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“It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.”
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“It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.”
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“A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.”
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“A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.”
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“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”
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“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”
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“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.”
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“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.”
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“Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”
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“Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
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“The moment of change is the only poem.”
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“The moment of change is the only poem.”
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“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?”
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“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?”
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“The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.”
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“The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.”
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“Life on the planet is born of woman.”
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“Life on the planet is born of woman.”
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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
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“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
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“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
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“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
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“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.”
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“Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.”
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“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
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“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
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“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
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