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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs s...
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 8 (1976).
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blis...
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 1 (1976).
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