Adrienne Rich Quotes
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
Rich, Adrienne. "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying." On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978, W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, p. 188.
Describing Martin Luther King Jr.:
Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse." Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum," which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.
