Art Quote by Adrienne Rich

“I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.”

Adrienne Rich

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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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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