Adrienne Rich quotes

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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. ...
The lie of compulsory female heterosexuality today afflicts not just feminist scholarship, but every profession, every reference w ...
When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you ... when someone with th ...
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal, ...
... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, wh ...
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective" ...
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus bein ...
Rape is a part of war; but it may be more accurate to say that the capacity for dehumanizing another which so corrodes male sexual ...
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or ind ...
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on ...
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