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

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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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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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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TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
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One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency to ... vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other 'exotic' ways of understanding.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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