Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, …

Adrienne Rich
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1995). On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company
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