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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• The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat… Bonds
• It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. Alive
• A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you...… Burn
• The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by… Aquariums
• Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. Art
• I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. Carbon
• The moment of change is the only poem. Change
• Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. All
• Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. Double
• Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for… Act
• in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel… All
• 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,… Absolute
• The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. Ceases
• That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to… Alone
• The password is a flicker of an eyelash. Eyelash
• You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. Depended
• Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe,… Alone
• There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. Among
• There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the… Carpet
• If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of… Begin
• Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness Been
• I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch Guess
• I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them. Inspirational
• I feel more helpless with you than without you. Feel
• There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. Complexity

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