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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Adrienne Rich

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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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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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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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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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