American - Poet | May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
Adrienne Rich
ChildrenGoStrikeOutDividedMost
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
WomenConnectionsPlanetForceMost
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
TimeAliveConsciousnessPainful
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
RelationshipPowerPoetryLanguage
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.
LiveYouDesireBurnLivingWill
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
PrideFeelingGloriousTricky
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
TruthHistoryDayNewsNewNever
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
TruthWomanCreatingMoreSheHer
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
WomanThinkingMonstersSleeps
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?
LifeDeathPainWorldSuicideRule
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
YouBackKnowComingHeadKeep
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
WorkHonestyTruthArtCheating
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