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“The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.”

Quote by Adrienne Rich

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

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Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

This book compiles a selection of prose writings from the specified time period, showcasing the author's literary style and thematic concerns during that era. more

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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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Book:A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981

Source: A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981

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“Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.”

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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.”

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“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

Source: Poemas, 1963-2000

“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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