Adrienne Rich Quotes

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.