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"When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
...
then I began to wonder"
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet and feminist. "North American Time," sect. 1, lines 1-5 and 10 (1983). |
"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, foreword (1976). |
"The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves ... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal."
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 4 (1976). |
"The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown."
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 2 (1976). |
"In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence."
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet. Of Woman Born, ch. 1 (1976). |
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