Quotes by Adrienne Rich

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There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. — Adrienne Rich
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that yo — Adrienne Rich
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. — Adrienne Rich
Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between people. This is true — Adrienne Rich
and I ask myself and you, which of our visions will claim uswhich will we claimhow will we go on livinghow will we touch — Adrienne Rich
Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls. — Adrienne Rich
For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to — Adrienne Rich
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seeming — Adrienne Rich
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have d — Adrienne Rich
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning — Adrienne Rich
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seeming — Adrienne Rich
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. — Adrienne Rich
And yet, protest it if we will,Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch upon those starry s — Adrienne Rich
As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning its government or by — Adrienne Rich
The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the romantic—asserts tha — Adrienne Rich
Woman-identification is a source of energy, a potential springhead of female power, violently curtailed and wasted under — Adrienne Rich
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons — Adrienne Rich
The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured un — Adrienne Rich
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings i — Adrienne Rich
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. — Adrienne Rich