“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat… — 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
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is not the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin --- for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The urge to leap across feminism to "human liberation" is a tragic and dangerous mistake. It deflects us from our real sources… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraordinary to note how often… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
