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I'd call it love if love
didn't take so many years
but lust too is a jewel.
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I am writing this in a time
when anything we write
can be used against those we love
where the context is never given
though we try to explain, over and over...
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings
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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.
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Day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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One line typed twenty years ago
can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint
to glorify art as detachment
or torture of those we
did not love but also
did not want to kill.
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Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Adrienne Rich
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Born:
May 16, 1929
Died:
March 27, 2012
(aged 82)
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