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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Lying is done with words and also with silence. Go to Quote / Comment
...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
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
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To "see the ... Go to Quote / Comment
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. Go to Quote / Comment