A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
Adrienne RichWriters matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
Adrienne RichA patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
Adrienne Rich