Quotes by : Adrienne Rich

Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they....

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation....

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

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship....

But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle....

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

I have chosen to use the terms lesbian existence and lesbian continuum because the word lesbianism has....

Women's art though created in solitude wells up out of community. There is clearly both enormous....

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

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.....