motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been,… — 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
“She is here because no-one else was there when worn-to-skeleton her enemy died. Her love. Her twin. Marghanita dreamed the intravenous, the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“[Poem II] I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each… — 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
“No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among… — 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
“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
“No one's fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we're not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes,… — 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
“If women are the earliest sources of emotional caring and physical nurture for both female and male children, it would seem logical,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“No one’s fated or doomed to love anyone. The accidents happen, we’re not heroines, they happen in our lives like car crashes,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past… — 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
