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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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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Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.
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Abortion is violence a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
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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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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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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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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 write as if your life depended on it to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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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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