War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel… — 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
“Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because… — 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
... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. — 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
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