Body Quotes by Adrienne Rich

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.

— Adrienne Rich

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

— Adrienne Rich

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

— Adrienne Rich

Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine

— Adrienne Rich

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means…

— Adrienne Rich

I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/…

— Adrienne Rich

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy…

— Adrienne Rich

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it…

— Adrienne Rich

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we…

— Adrienne Rich

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates…

— Adrienne Rich

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one…

— Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the…

— Adrienne Rich

Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that…

— Adrienne Rich

When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings…

— Adrienne Rich

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world…

— Adrienne Rich

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or…

— Adrienne Rich