Adrienne Rich ✓

(1929–2012) feminist United States

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[Wikidata] American poet, essayist and feminist (1929–2012)... | [Wikipedia] Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". Rich criticized the

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• We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us. Count
• I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. Art
• Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail. Able
• In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. Language
• When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium,… Authority
• Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. Condition
• A language is a map of our failures Failures
• The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to… Body
• But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of… Beyond
• I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel. Call
• In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the… Bodies
• The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human… Amniotic
• We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that… Accustomed
• War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. Absolute
• Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an… Art
• The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than… Art
• Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! All
• Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Complicated
• Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect… Access
• The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs… All
• We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the… Cycles
• Lying is done with words and also with silence. Communication
• The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. Among
• A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. Inspirational
• When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. Creating

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