“Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I… — 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:… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — 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
.Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Power Living in the earth-deposits of our history Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth one bottle amber… — 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… — 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
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity,… — 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
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Origins and History of Consciousness III. It’s simple to wake from sleep with a stranger, dress, go out, drink coffee, enter a… — 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
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. — 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
