Quotes by : Adrienne Rich

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether....

The StrangerLooking as I’ve looked before, straight down the heartof the street to the riverwalking....

The I you know isn’t me, you said, truthtelling liarMy roots are not my chainsAnd I to you:   Whose....

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

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,and somehow, each of us will help the other live,and somewhere,....

The dead” we say   as if speakingof “the people” whogave up on making historysimply to get throughSomething....

The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay....

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled....

As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning its....

There is a cop who is both prowler and father:he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers,had....