Adrienne Rich Quotes

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.

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

The women’s movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked.

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.

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.

Experience is always larger than language.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

Strangers are an endangered species.

There is no ‘the truth’,’a truth’ – truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.