Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Adrienne Rich

Read through the most famous quotes from Adrienne Rich




When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.


— Adrienne Rich


#poetry-quotes

To do something very common, in my own way.


— Adrienne Rich


#poetry-quotes

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings


— Adrienne Rich


#dreams

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.


— Adrienne Rich


#poets #poets-on-poetry #women-poets #art

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.


— Adrienne Rich


#control #patriarchy #politics #reproduction #revolution

but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties


— Adrienne Rich


#dreams

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


— Adrienne Rich


#oppression #silence #voice #experience

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.


— Adrienne Rich


#childbearing #children #motherhood #right-wing-politics #war

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.


— Adrienne Rich


#between #connections #feared #force #most

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.


— Adrienne Rich


#feeling #glorious #pride #tricky






About Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich Quotes




Did you know about Adrienne Rich?

W. H. Norton.

She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century" and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award; he went on to write the introduction to the publiAdrienne Richd volume. "
Her first collection of poetry A Change of World was selected by the senior poet W.

back to top