Ambivalence Quote by Adrienne Rich

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

— Adrienne Rich

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

— Adrienne Rich

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

“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

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

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

... 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

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

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

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

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