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Strangers are an endangered species.

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
Endangered
Strangers
Stranger
Species

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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
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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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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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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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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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Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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