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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Also Done Lying Silence Words

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Belongs Death Famine Life Order Our Pain Persuade Rule Some Suicide Than Us While World Worse

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Complicated Delusions Events Every False Journey Memories Past Real

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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Another Mind Obscurity Out Passion Tale Tell

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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Double-Edged Feeling Glorious Pride Tricky

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Life on the planet is born of woman.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Born Life Planet Woman

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: All Day Any Day False Gets History Made Never New News Truth

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Monsters Sleeps Thinking Woman

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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 old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Cycles Every Feeling Inadequate Language May Might Old Our Possess Process Remains Resource Revolutionary Running Still Technological Thinking Transformative Vision

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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... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

~Adrienne Rich

Topics: Burn Desire Even How Live Living Might Poem Reminds Revolutionary Tell Where Who Will You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 16th, 1929

Died: March 27th, 2012

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