Famous Adrienne Rich Quotes

  • The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot. – Adrienne Rich

    The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.– Adrienne Rich

  • 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

    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

  • Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude. – Adrienne Rich

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

  • Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language. – Adrienne Rich

    Poetry is, among other things, a criticism of language.– Adrienne Rich

  • Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a formDo not confuse itwith any kind of absence – Adrienne Rich

    Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a formDo not confuse itwith any kind of absence– Adrienne Rich

  • I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them. – Adrienne Rich

    I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.– Adrienne Rich

  • I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons – Adrienne Rich

    I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn’t know that, and I have no carbons– Adrienne Rich

  • Lying is done with words, and also with silence. – Adrienne Rich

    Lying is done with words, and also with silence.– Adrienne Rich

  • if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces. – Adrienne Rich

    if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.– Adrienne Rich

  • In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. – Adrienne Rich

    In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.– Adrienne Rich