Adrienne Rich Quotes
143 quotes
in 2032 categories
-
Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked…
-
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that…
-
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 again.
-
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 enough.
-
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 tone have something - a…
-
Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
-
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter…
-
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide,…
-
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with…
-
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of…
-
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid…
-
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the…
-
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
Browse Adrienne Rich Quotes by Category