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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs s...
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 8 (1976).
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blis...
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 1 (1976).
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The mother's battle for her child—with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life—needs to become a common human battle, wa...
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Adrienne Rich (20th century), U.S. author. Of Women Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976).
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It is ... crucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the ...
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, foreword (1980).
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''the true nature of poetry. The drive
to connect. The dream of a common language.''
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet, essayist, and lesbian feminist. "Origins and History of Consciousness," part 1, lines 11-12 (1972-1974).
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No one lives in this room
without confronting the whiteness of the wall
behind the poems, planks of books,
photographs of dead heroines.
Without contemplating last and late
th...
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Origins and History of Consciousness, The Dream of a Common Language (1978).
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''children are dying my death
and eating crumbs of my life.''
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Orion (l. 29-30). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W....
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''Pity is not your forte.
Calmly you ache up there
pinned aloft in your crow's nest,
my speechless pirate!''
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Orion (l. 31-34). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W....
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''Only to have a grief
equal to all these tears!''
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. "Peeling Onions," Snaphots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963).
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''... this world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being''
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Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet and feminist. "Pieces," section 3, lines 12-13 (1969).
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