Quotes by Rich, Adrienne




Adrienne Rich (born May 16, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer..

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

Rich, Adrienne on feminism
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"We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative."

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"We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever."

Rich, Adrienne on love
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"The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown."

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

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"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...?"

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"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

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"We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie."

Rich, Adrienne on politics    Share

"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 a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance."

Rich, Adrienne on evolution    Share

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

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"In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence."

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"The moment of change is the only poem."

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"Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!"

Rich, Adrienne on cries and crying    Share

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events."

Rich, Adrienne on past    Share

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