In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

— Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
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