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 ...?Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:29 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #1218 from Power. Hunger. by Adrienne Rich
She says : I do not know
if sex is an illusionI 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.Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #606 from Dialogue by Adrienne Rich
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.Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #553 from meditations for a savage child by Adrienne Rich
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #315 from Disloyal to Civilization: Feminism, Racism, Gynephobia by Adrienne Rich
I'd rathertaste blood, yours, or mine, flowingfrom a sudden slash, than cut all daywith blunt scissors on dotted lineslike the teacher told.Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #308 from On Edges by Adrienne Rich
A decade of cutting away
dead flesh, cauterizing
old scars ripped open over and over
and still it is not enough.Submitted on Thu, 2009-03-19 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #192 from Toward The Solstice by Adrienne Rich
