Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories and false naming's of real events. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“An honorable human relationship--that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"--is a process, delicate, violent,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Birds and periodic blood. Old recapitulations. The fox, panting, fire-eyed, gone to earth in my chest. How beautiful we are, he and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
“Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!' — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
