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Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

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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
Invitation
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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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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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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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