27 Quotations by Adrienne Rich
- 1. As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-sufferin ...

- 2. Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had ...

- 3. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real event ...

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

- 5. How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

- 6. If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and ho ...

- 7. In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a p ...

- 8. It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disori ...

- 9. My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the sufferin ...

- 10. No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ...

- 11. No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ...

- 12. Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

- 13. The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most pote ...

- 14. The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

- 15. The moment of change is the only poem.

- 16. The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important ...

- 17. The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corres ...

- 18. The word "revolution" itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadended ...

- 19. The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to the ...

- 20. There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possess ...

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