Adrienne RichIt will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple ✨ Adrienne Cecile Rich (1951). Selected poems, 1950-1995, Salmon Publishing… ▶371Love
Adrienne RichA decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poem… ▶371Death
Adrienne RichI soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, … ▶371Life
Adrienne RichWhen a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2002). Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations, p.23, W. W. N… ▶372Truth
Adrienne RichThat's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can … ▶363LifeLovePolitics
Adrienne RichYou have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call … ▶341Love
Adrienne RichThe mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human… ▶375HumanityLifeLove
Adrienne RichYou must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition), p.35, W. W. Norto… ▶354LifePoliticsReading
Adrienne RichOne does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices … ▶376Politics
Adrienne Richin the nineteenth year and the eleventh month speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides: Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel on ones we knew and loved Praise to … ▶322LifeLoveThought
Adrienne RichI 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 we have come to an edge of hi… ▶333HumanityLifeThought
Adrienne RichThe 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 (1976).… ▶377DeathHumanityLife
Adrienne RichThe 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 t… ▶333LifeLove
Adrienne RichBut can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child’s mother or some man’s wife?…we hav… ▶344ReadingThought
Adrienne RichDespair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2003). What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poet… ▶322PoliticsReading
Adrienne RichA revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live,… ▶368LifeThought
Adrienne RichAll new learning looks at first like chaos. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2011). Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company313Truth
Adrienne RichThe more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2013). The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977, p.32, W. W. Norton & Company336HumanityThought
Adrienne RichRe-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is… ▶3710Humanity
Adrienne RichSaw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewher… ▶347ReadingThought
Adrienne RichWhen one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.369Truth
Adrienne RichA president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'” ✨ Adrienne Rich (2002). Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversat… ▶325HumanityPhilosophy
Adrienne RichThe difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of say… ▶292ReadingThought
Adrienne RichNo woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as … ▶369Reading
Adrienne RichThey 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...? ✨ Adr… ▶3710DeathLifeSadness
Adrienne RichA thinking woman sleeps with monsters. ✨ Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law l. 26 (1963)3610PoliticsThought
Adrienne RichIf you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. ✨ Adrienne Rich (20… ▶3610ReadingThought
Adrienne RichI believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and w… ▶338Thought
Adrienne RichCourage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.316Time
Adrienne RichWe need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and … ▶349HumanityLifePhilosophy
