To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
ADRIENNE RICHTo work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
ADRIENNE RICHI feel more helpless with you than without you.
ADRIENNE RICHA decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
ADRIENNE RICHIf you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
ADRIENNE RICHThe so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
ADRIENNE RICHThere being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence
ADRIENNE RICHBut before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
ADRIENNE RICHI began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
ADRIENNE RICHLife on the planet is born of woman.
ADRIENNE RICHThe liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
ADRIENNE RICHWhen someone, let’s say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it’s like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
ADRIENNE RICHI choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
ADRIENNE RICHPoems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien – and very often they believe themselves superior.
ADRIENNE RICHLying is done with words and also with silence.
ADRIENNE RICH