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Adrienne Rich [1929-2012] American

Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Fantasy, Feminism, Social, Vernacular

Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and radical 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."

Poetry, Love, Relationship, Time, War, Women

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.		101
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.		102
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.	Love, War	103
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.	Time	104
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.		105
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.	Women	106
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.		107
We might possess every technological resource... but if 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.		108
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.		109
Lying is done with words and also with silence.		110
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.		111
Life on the planet is born of woman.		112
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.		113
The moment of change is the only poem.	Poetry	114
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.		115
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.	Poetry, Relationship	116
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.		117
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?		118
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.		119
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.		120
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.		121

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