Pjesnikinja i esejistica Adrienne Rich, feministička figura slavljena i po svojim duboko osobnim refleksijama kao i po oštrim društvenim komentarima preminula je jučer u 82. godini u svom domu u Kaliforniji.
Rich, koja je primila cijelu galaksiju nagrada, živjela je i pisala otvoreno kao lezbijka većinu svog odraslog života, počevši u vremenu kada je homoseksualnost bila široko osuđivana u SAD-u, te je postala pionirska borkinja za ženska ljudska prava i ostale deprevilegirane skupine.
Ostavila je iza sebe 25 zbirki pjesama i nekoliko generacija duboko zahvalnih za posao koji je obavila. NY Times, AfterEllen...
Prenosimo nekoliko njenih citata:
- The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
- The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
- The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
- We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be „revolutionary” but not transformative.
- Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
- When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
