I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.
All new learning looks at first like chaos. - Adrienne Rich
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
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see. - Adrienne Rich
The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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 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…
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
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 …
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. - Adrienne Rich
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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
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 …
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
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…
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
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…
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