The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential …

Adrienne Rich
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1976). Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
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