"It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous……" — Adrienne Rich
"It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness"
—
Adrienne Rich
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
142 Quotes by Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich has 142 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us…
-
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the…
-
Life on the planet is born of woman.
-
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose…
-
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
-
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
-
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not…
-
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
-
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
-
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
-
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
-
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal…
See all 142 quotes by Adrienne Rich »
More Alternation Quotes
This quote is filed under Alternation Quotes,
one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be…
— David Berlinski
-
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
— Adrienne Rich
-
Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon,…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
-
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake…
— John Dewey
-
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when,…
— Rollo May
-
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake…
— John Dewey
-
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the…
— Thomas Merton
-
But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or…
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
-
My garden, like my life, seems to me every year to want correction and require alternation.
— Alexander Pope
-
Old geography studied nature. Modern geography mostly studies alternation in nature
— Mohammad MUSTAFA
-
If you should temporarily lose your sense of well-being, don't be too quick to despair. With humility and patience, wait…
— Thomas A Kempis
See all 13 Alternation Quotes »