Truth Quotes by Adrienne Rich

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories and false naming's of real events.

— Adrienne Rich

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

— Adrienne Rich

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

— Adrienne Rich

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

— Adrienne Rich

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

— Adrienne Rich

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

— Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

— Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths…

— Adrienne Rich

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

— Adrienne Rich

“We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born…

— Adrienne Rich

“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

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the…

— 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

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written…

— Adrienne Rich

“Birds and periodic blood. Old recapitulations. The fox, panting, fire-eyed, gone to earth in my chest. How beautiful we are, he and…

— 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

An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,…

— Adrienne Rich

“Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true in political…

— Adrienne Rich