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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Around Creating Her More Possibility She Tells Truth Woman

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The moment of change is the only poem.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Change Moment Only Poem

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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Among Between Connections Feared Force Most Planet Potentially Problematic Transforming Women Women Are

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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Alive Also Awakening Confusing Consciousness Exhilarating Painful Time

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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 attack on the male right of access to women.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Access Also Attack Both Breaking Compulsory Direct Existence Indirect Lesbian Life Male Rejection Right Taboo Way Women

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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 strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Bonds Breakdown Children Compassionate Divided Each Form Go Homes Mental Most Mothers Often Other Our Out Physical Strike Strikes Taken Tied Worker

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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 workers.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Bodies Bring Change Essential Far Human Human Society Means More Our Production Seizing Society Than Will Women Workers

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Above Concentration Everything Language Our Poetry Power Relationship Ultimate Universe Which

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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Back Coming Head Keep Know You

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Art Artifice Avoid Cannot Cheating Honesty Must Through Truth Whose Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 16th, 1929

Died: March 27th, 2012

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