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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
Feminist
Peace Activist
Poet
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adrienne Cecile Rich
Adrienne Cécile Rich
Adrienne Riche
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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite) we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
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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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Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single I or from any one position. I want to imagine voices different from my own.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.
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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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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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