Author: Adrienne Rich

Quotes

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

- Adrienne Rich

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

- Adrienne Rich

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

- Adrienne Rich

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

- Adrienne Rich

The moment of change is the only poem.

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Adrienne Rich

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

- Adrienne Rich

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

- Adrienne Rich

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

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

- Adrienne Rich

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, than a life of famine and suicide?

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, than a life of famine and suicide?

- Adrienne Rich

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