Ifs Quotes by Adrienne Rich

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

— Adrienne Rich

I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

— Adrienne Rich

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

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

— Adrienne Rich

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the…

— Adrienne Rich

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however…

— Adrienne Rich

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the…

— Adrienne Rich

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium,…

— Adrienne Rich

.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

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life…

— Adrienne Rich

I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or…

— 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

When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment…

— Adrienne Rich

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that…

— Adrienne Rich

No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music,…

— Adrienne Rich

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived,…

— Adrienne Rich