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Quotation by Adrienne Rich
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"After a Sentence in 'Malte Laurids Brigge'" Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)As quoted in Moving Beyond Words by Gloria Steinem (1994)as quoted in Ms. magazine (September 1979)Aunt Jennifer's TigersBlood, Bread and Poetry (1986)Related Subjects
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the shamanesses, the fierce marketwomen of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silkworkers of prerevolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. "What Does a Woman Need to Know?" Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986).
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