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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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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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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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Poetry
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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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Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. – Howard Dean

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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers. – Norman Schwarzkopf

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War

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They dont have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. – Tom Hiddleston

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War

We need a new law that owners of SUVs are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil. – Jello Biafra, quoted in The Guardian, 3 November 2007

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Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides. – Frank Tyger

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Everything is clearer when youre in love. – John Lennon

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It takes people a while to trust you. – Karl Malone

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Trust

A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters’ role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. – Victoria Secunda

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Mothers