Author: Adrienne Rich

Quotes

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

- 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

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

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

- 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

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 repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

- Adrienne Rich

The moment of change is the only poem.

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Adrienne Rich

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

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