Quotes By Person: Adrienne Rich

“Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.”

-Adrienne Rich

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“She says : I do not know
if sex is an illusion

I do not know
who I was when I did those things
or who I said I was
or whether I willed to feel
what I had read about
or who in fact there was with me
or whether I knew, even then
that there was doubt about these things.”

-Dialogue, Adrienne Rich

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“Even where love has run thin
the child's soul musters strength...
--the rush of purpose to make a life
worth living past abandonment
building the layers up again
over the torn hole.”

-meditations for a savage child, Adrienne Rich

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“I'd rather
taste blood, yours, or mine, flowing
from a sudden slash, than cut all day
with blunt scissors on dotted lines
like the teacher told.”

-On Edges, Adrienne Rich

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“They can rule the world while they can persuade us
our pain belongs in some order.
Is death by famine worse than death by suicide,
than a life of famine and suicide ...?”

-Power. Hunger., Adrienne Rich

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“A decade of cutting away
dead flesh, cauterizing
old scars ripped open over and over
and still it is not enough.”

-Toward The Solstice, Adrienne Rich

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