Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse."
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...Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that ... Go to Quote / Comment
Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! Go to Quote / Comment
Reading while waiting for the iron to heat, writing, My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— Go to Quote / Comment
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this ... Go to Quote / Comment
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie. Go to Quote / Comment