I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.
Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company
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