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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

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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
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Adrienne Riche
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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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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Global culture is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To see the light too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
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An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
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... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
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