Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history it is an act of survival.
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.Adrienne Rich
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
Adrienne Rich
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
Life on the planet is born of woman.
Adrienne Rich
A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this not why, only that we were here like this, together.
Adrienne Rich
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
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