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I came to explore the wreck.

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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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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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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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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