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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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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Poetry
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Women
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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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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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process it is not an identity for all time.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”
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...you look at me like an emergency
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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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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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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim us which will we claim how will we go on living how will we touch, what will we know what will we say to each other.
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