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01c. 1970 AD

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.

Adrienne Rich / quote

02c. 1970 AD

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.

Adrienne Rich / quote

03c. 1970 AD

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Adrienne Rich / quote

04c. 1970 AD

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Adrienne Rich / quote

05c. 1970 AD

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Adrienne Rich / quote