Friday QuoteDay

"You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it." 

— Adrienne Rich, American writer, feminist, activist

Via the New York Times:

Adrienne Rich, a poet of towering reputation and towering rage, whose work — distinguished by an unswerving progressive vision and a dazzling, empathic ferocity — brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse and kept it there for nearly a half-century, died on Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82.