Adrienne Rich Quotes
|
|
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchical i
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
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 Quote
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
Life on the planet is born of woman.
~ Adrienne Rich Quote
