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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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. – Adrienne Rich

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Society
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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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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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I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary. – Charles Schumer

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Look at an infantrymans eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. – William Alexander Henry

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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. – Donald Trump

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My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years. – Jane Seymour

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. – Berthold Auerbach

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