Quotes by Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

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An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" – is a process, — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted," for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a cultu — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
In a world dominated by violent and passive-aggressive men, and by male institutions dispensing violence, it is extraord — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standard — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for surviva — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978