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Adrienne Rich Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is renaming.”
— Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
Tagged: Beauty In The Contradiction, Playing With Odd Notions, Mesh of Pushing Against The Grain, Contrarian, Mixing All The Notions, Conceptual Hacks
“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”
— Adrienne Rich, Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema(The New Middle Ages
Tagged: History, The Impossibility Of Memory, Memory
“Poetry has the capacity, in its own ways and by its own means, to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.”
— Adrienne Rich, Poetry and Commitment
Tagged: Poetry, Going Beyond The Limits, Forbidden, What Is Denied
“The woman I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.”
— Adrienne Rich, Later Poems: Selected and New 1971-2012
Tagged: feminism, Silencing of Woman, Motherhood, Moms
“She says: I gave my tongue to love and this makes it hard to speak.”
— Adrienne Rich, Later Poems: Selected and New 1971-2012
Tagged: Love, Silencing of Love, Loss of Words
“You touched me in places so deep I wanted to ignore you.”
— Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Tagged: Closeness, Person, Love, Lover, Relationship, Reflection, Deep Quotes of Love, The Edge
“I do not give simplehearted love and nor allow you simply love me.”
— Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Tagged: Love, simple hearted, Poetry, poetic love
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
— Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970
Tagged: Change, Poetry of Motion
“My roots are not my chains.”
— Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Tagged: Poetry, Lies
“I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence.”
— Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
Tagged: Love, Intelligence, Choice, decision
“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
— Adrienne Rich, Reading Adrienne Rich: Reviews and Re-Visions, 1951-81
Tagged: Woman, Truth, Telling The Truth, feminism, Women Empowerment
“Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.”
— Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
Tagged: Understanding Ourselves, understanding assumptions, Self-understanding, Understanding Yourself, comprehending, Self & Identity, Human Anatomy, humans
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed.”
— Adrienne Rich, ‘Natural Resources’, The Dream of a Common Language
Tagged: Sensitive, Feelings, Easily moved, moving
“The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits.”
— Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Tagged: Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman, feminism, Life, Birth, Being A Mother
“I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.”
— Adrienne Rich, 'Planetarium,' in The Fact of a Doorframe
Tagged: Being a woman, Women, feminism, Female Strength, Female Perspective, Being A Child, My Favorites
“The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.”
— Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Tagged: feminism, Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman
“My head is full of whispers, which tomorrow will be silent.”
— Adrienne Rich, The Trees
Tagged: Voice Inside Your Head, Deep From Within The Voices, Whisper, Silence
“You want to ask, am I lonely?
Well, of course, lonely
as a woman driving across country
day after day, leaving behind
mile after mile
little towns she might have stopped
and lived and died in, lonely”
— Adrienne Rich, "Song," Diving Into The Wreck
Tagged: Loneliness, Feeling Alone, Driving In The Car, Being A Female
“To do something very common, in my own way.”
— Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose
Tagged: Uniqueness, doing things your own way, Independence, special snowflake, Being Different, different in your own way, poem, Poetry
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