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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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
Power
Telephones
Real
Laboratory
Radioactivity
Tangible
Pipelines
Stations
Microwaves
Nuclear
Laboratories
Streets
Cloning
Language
Pipeline
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Telephone
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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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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
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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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I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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