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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

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
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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We have lived with violence far too long.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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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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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.
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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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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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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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I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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