Adrienne Rich Quotes, Sex Quotes, Jewels Quotes

I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Sex Quotes , Jewels Quotes

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Self Quotes , Numbness Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Dream Quotes , Escaping Quotes

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Reality Quotes , Poetry Quotes

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Healing Quotes , Space Quotes

Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Political Quotes , Challenges Quotes

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Work Quotes

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Mother Quotes , Heart Quotes

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Looks Quotes , Firsts Quotes

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Educational Quotes , Believe 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Past Quotes

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes