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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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Adrienne Rich
Age: 82 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2012
Died: March 27
Essayist
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Baltimore
Maryland
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