Adrienne Rich: Woman

Adrienne Rich was American poet, essayist and feminist. Explore interesting quotes on woman.
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“I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.”

Adrienne Rich

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”

Adrienne Rich

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variant: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.

Thinking , Sleep

“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

Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Women , Men

“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.”

Adrienne Rich

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

Men , World , Law , Sister

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

Adrienne Rich

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