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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belong

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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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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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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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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