Adrienne Rich Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Mothers Day Quotes

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.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Mothers Day Quotes

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Knives Quotes , Cake Quotes

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Voice Quotes , Political Quotes

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Time Quotes , Years Quotes

In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Cutting Quotes , Light Quotes

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Truth Quotes , Integrity Quotes

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Without You Quotes , Feels Quotes

I 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 whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Life Quotes , Respect Quotes

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Writing Quotes , White Quotes

... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Giving Quotes , World Quotes

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Assumption Quotes

When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Dream Quotes , Escaping Quotes

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Running Quotes , Children Quotes

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Liars Quotes

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Poverty Quotes , Transcendental Quotes

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Mirrors Quotes

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Daughter Quotes , Mother Quotes

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Past Quotes

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Struggle Quotes