Adrienne Rich

When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#poetry-quotes

To do something very common, in my own way. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#poetry-quotes

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#dreams

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#poets #poets-on-poetry #women-poets #art

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#control #patriarchy #politics #reproduction #revolution

but from here on I want more crazy mourning, more howl, more keening -from "A Woman Dead in Her Forties ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#dreams

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#oppression #silence #voice #experience

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#childbearing #children #motherhood #right-wing-politics #war

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#between #connections #feared #force #most

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#feeling #glorious #pride #tricky