Quote by Adrienne Rich
The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with

The mothers 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

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…? – Adrienne Rich

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Death
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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

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

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Women
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein

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It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. – Fred Woodworth

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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. – Noam Chomsky

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We didnt start this war – the right wing did. Were tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, its about jobs and its about rebuilding America. – James P. Hoffa

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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say? – Vaclav Havel

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The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. – Joel Hildebrand

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I try to forget what happiness was, and when that dont work, I study the stars. – Derek Walcott

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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