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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...?»
«Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women.Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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extreme poverty, forcibly, heterosexuality, imposed, ostracism, psychosurgery
«The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.»
«No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
«It's as though she was able to convert her rage to live under this verdict of HIV into an art that was actually equal to it.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
«We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as 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.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
«Open Air Museum. Seen from a train, stopped / As by design, to bring us / Face to face with the flag of our true country: / Violet-yellow, black-violet, / Its heart sucked by slow fire / O my America / This then your desire?»
Author: Adrienne Rich
«How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
«Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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