Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Richwas an American poet, essayist and radical feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 May 1929
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
mean aquariums body
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
thinking two people
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.
mean writing reality
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
integrity commitment rights
It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
two giving body
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
cutting self light
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.
inspirational-life rich-life planets
Life on the planet is born of woman.
fall recovery rose
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
fake-people memories real
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
country war imagination
War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
sleep thinking monsters
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
relationship language-and-power concentration
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
silence overcoming break
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
powerful lying secret
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.