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Quotation by Adrienne Rich
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet, essayist, and feminist. Blood, Bread and Poetry, ch. 8 (1986).
From the Clark Lecture which she delivered at Scripps College in Claremont, California, on February 15, 1983.
From the Clark Lecture which she delivered at Scripps College in Claremont, California, on February 15, 1983.
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