Adrienne Rich Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.”

“Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”

“The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.”

“Life on the planet is born of woman.”

“They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?”

“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.”

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

“False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”

“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.”

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”