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Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.
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Came Explore Wreck
What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Believe Government Represent Same Thing
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Choices Chosen Decision Real Require Revolution Woman
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Language Naming Oppression Power Silence Violence World
To allow what you’re reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers.
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Answer Carnal Charted Impermeable Ordinary Pierce Reading Right Routine Safe
I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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Generation Idea Irrelevant Raised Succumb Tech Television
There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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Artist Boundaries Bursting Channel Choiceless Creative Enormous Hunger Merely System Working
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from “Transcendental Etude
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False Glamour Longer Mistrust Performance Poverty Theatricality Transcendental
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
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Hard Learning Mean Refusing Responsibility Strong Thinking Women Work
I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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Began Feel Heard Movement Resonating Voice
The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.
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Apparated Asking Crucial Movement Political Voice Women
When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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Healing Making One Space Tell Truth Woman
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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Correspond Men's Monsters Moon Ocean Pull Respond Women
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
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Alone Enough Meadow Midnight Planet Rotating Sleep Sleeping Touch Turning
I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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Born Each Help Helping Knowing Live Somehow Somewhere Tomorrow
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Abusive Begin Heal Individual Psychic Society Stories Want

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