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Every woman’s soul is haunted by the spirits of earlier women who fought for their unmet needs and those of their children and their tribes and their peoples, who refused to accept the prescriptions of a male church and state, who took risks and resisted … those spirits dwell in us, trying to speak to us. …try to be worthy of your foresisters, learn from your history, look for inspiration from your ancestresses.
Adrienne Rich in Smith commencement address, as quoted by Ms. -
Truthfulness anywhere means a heightened complexity.
Adrienne Rich (via theheartisalandfill)
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