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Quote by Adrienne Rich

“TV has created a kind of false collectivity.”

Quote by Adrienne Rich

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Adrienne Rich was an American poet known for her profound poetry and feminist perspective. Her works explored themes such as gender, politics, and social justice, having a profound impact on contemporary poetry. more

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“We have lived with violence far too long.”

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“Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.”

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“The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.”

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Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Any woman's death diminishes me.”

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.”

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“In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.”

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Book:Poemas, 1963-2000

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“I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.”

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“Marriage is lonelier than solitude.”

Book:Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012: 1971–2012

Source: Later Poems: Selected and New: 1971-2012: 1971–2012

“... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.”