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  • In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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    Silence   World   Violence  
    Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

  • Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

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    Abortion   Violence   Firsts  
    Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

  • We have lived with violence far too long.

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    Long   Violence  

  • Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

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    People   Magic   Culture  
    Source: www.paulodacosta.ca
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Adrienne Rich

  • Born: May 16, 1929
  • Died: March 27, 2012
  • Occupation: Poet
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