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“Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.”

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

The book includes a variety of essays and articles that reflect the author's thoughts and observations during the specified period. more

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Adrienne Rich

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

“When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. Yet you know you exist and others like you, that this is a game with mirrors. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.”

Ifs Knows World Soul Moments Games Individual Understanding Saws Teacher Heard Feminism Like You Authority Mirrors Collectives Void Psychics Thrust Individual Strength Disequilibrium

Author:Adrienne Rich

“Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.”

Humans Speak Sex Race Conditions Oppression Human Condition Servitude

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“A language is a map of our failures”

Language Maps

Book:Poemas, 1963-2000

Source: Poemas, 1963-2000

“The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.”

Want Doe Dream Body Desire Struggle Complexity Unconscious

Book:Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations

“But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.”

Imagination Struggle Possibility Survival Mere Recognition Radical Impatient Struggle For Survival

Author:Adrienne Rich

“We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.”

Ifs Looks Ends Opportunity Given Roles Judging Authority Fairs Hearing Optimistic The End Of The Day Senate Qualifications And At The End Of The Day

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.”

People Heart Prayer Concerned London Aids Investigation Providing Egypt Expertise

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.”

Kind Government Certain Information Example Deserve Court Privilege Protection Documentation Exemption

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.”

Needs Wells Has Beens Found Court Privilege Worthy Protection Clients Attorney

Author:Alberto Gonzales

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