• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Adrienne Rich Quotes
  • Adrienne Rich Quotes   253
  • In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry. In it she says that on any particular day in the world, if poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , War Quotes , Book Quotes
  • No 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 unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , War Quotes
  • The 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 saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Two Quotes , Phrases 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.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Mother Quotes , Heart Quotes