The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
ADRIENNE RICHThe suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
ADRIENNE RICHIt is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
ADRIENNE RICHNo woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
ADRIENNE RICHResponsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
ADRIENNE RICHSleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we’re not alone in the universe, even in sleep.
ADRIENNE RICHAn honorable human relationship … is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
ADRIENNE RICHAnd perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
ADRIENNE RICHWe move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
ADRIENNE RICHIf I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
ADRIENNE RICHMost women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
ADRIENNE RICHTo conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
ADRIENNE RICHif we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
ADRIENNE RICHSometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
ADRIENNE RICHThe most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
ADRIENNE RICHSince men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
ADRIENNE RICHLies are usually attempts to make everything simpler – for the liar – than it really is, or ought to be.
ADRIENNE RICH