All new learning looks at first like chaos.

- Adrienne Rich

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

- Adrienne Rich

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illumina…

- Adrienne Rich

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

- Adrienne Rich

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own …

- Adrienne Rich

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

- Adrienne Rich

When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you …

- Adrienne Rich

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 s…

- Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terri…

- Adrienne Rich