Quotes by : Adrienne Rich

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the....

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

In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain....

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological....

Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that rises....

To do something very common, in my own way.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early....