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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
Life
Depended
Read
Write
Must
Writing

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I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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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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Global culture is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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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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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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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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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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