American - Poet | May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
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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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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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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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