Quotes by : Adrienne Rich

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

The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the....

Birds and periodic blood.Old recapitulations.The fox, panting, fire-eyed,gone to earth in my chest.How....

Theory-the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees

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

Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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

The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing....

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

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