"The moment of change is the only poem."
-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.“
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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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"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."
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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."
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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."
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