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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

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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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Prediction
Predictions
Abroad
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... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple
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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.
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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
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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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