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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Reading while waiting for the iron to heat, writing, My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— Go to Quote / Comment
... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all—... 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
The will to change begins in the body not in the mind My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and ... Go to Quote / Comment
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order.... Go to Quote / Comment