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“What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

“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.”

Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

“What we see, we see
and seeing is changing”

“To do something very common, in my own way.”

“The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.

-from "Transcendental Etude”

Adrienne Rich book The Dream of a Common Language

Source: The Dream of a Common Language

“The password is a flicker of an eyelash.”

Source: Selected Poems

“To become a token woman—whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters—is to become something less than a man … since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.”

As quoted in Ms. magazine (September 1979), p. 44

“False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news
False history gets written every day…
The lesbian archaeologist watches herself
sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing,
asking the clay all questions but her own.”

Turning the Wheel (1981), section 2

“The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps—no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.”

What Is Found There (1993), ch. 11

“Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.”

Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986), ch. 1

“No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.”

Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986), ch. 1