Adrienne Rich Quotes (21 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„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.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author 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.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„A 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, it is a wick of desire.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author 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.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author 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...?“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„Life on the planet is born of woman.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„The moment of change is the only poem.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„The 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 battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„Lying is done with words and also with silence.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author 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.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„We might possess every technological resource... but if 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.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.“
― Adrienne Rich ―
Picture of quotation author Adrienne Rich
„It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.“
― Adrienne Rich ―

Looking for more quote authors similar to Adrienne Rich?

Famous poets:

Maya Angelou, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hart Crane, Sophocles, A. E. Housman, Aeschylus, Aaron Hill, A. R. Ammons, Francois Villon

Famous American quote authors:

Taylor Swift, Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Aniston, Dean Heller, Dana Goodyear, Trent Reznor, Ted Danson, Noam Chomsky, Alan Alda, Chris Zylka

Popular American poets:

Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hart Crane, A. R. Ammons, Carl Sandburg, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Don Marquis, James Russell Lowell, T. S. Eliot, Countee Cullen

Author information

Adrienne Rich
Author born: May 16, 1929
Author died: March 27, 2012
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Poet

Popular topics

More topics

Popular Authors

More authors