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Adrienne Rich

What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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Believe Government Represent Same Thing
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
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Dried Drop Dust Grief Heart Lip Refused River Wear
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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Always Asked Children Come Fear Growing Lest Menses Up Waited Waiting War Women
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.
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Breaking Comprise Compulsory Existence Heterosexuality Lesbian Life Male Rejection Taboo
Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
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Chamber Desire Feeling Locked Poetry Possibility Recharge Zone
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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Bad Ass Believe Children Endangered Feminist Physically Society
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Count Few Hard Important People Way
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 is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.
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Buyable Life Live Melodrama Memories Nostalgia Salablem Blip Screen Suspense Terrible Terror Way
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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Child Children Female Identity Intense Motherhood Process Reciprocal
There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Carpet Complexity Incraeding Look Pattern Surface System Truth Unseen
“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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Commodity Culture Image Imposing Interest Marketing
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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Attempt Correspond Dangerously Daughter Mother Personalities Personality
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
What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Century Coming Country Culture Different Discerned Poetic Role Social Together Voice
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Dream Know Like Poem Put
Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger

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