Adrienne Rich Quotes

Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.

I’ve known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us.

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.

We have lived with violence far too long.

Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

“What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?” Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?