"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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Adrienne Rich Quotes

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"For him did we leave our mothers,
deny our sisters, over and over?" ~Adrienne Rich.

"I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail." ~Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet.
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” ~Adrienne Rich, "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"

"Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire." ~Adrienne Rich

"The connections between and among women are ... the most potentially transforming force on the planet." ~Adrienne Rich

“The moment of change is the only poem.” ~Adrienne Rich

"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." ~Adrienne Rich

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.” ~Adrienne Rich

‎"You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it." ~Adrienne Rich

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