Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse."
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... there is no way of measuring the damage to a society when a whole texture of humanity is kept from realizing its own power, when the woman... Go to Quote / Comment
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To 'see the ... Go to Quote / Comment
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do. Go to Quote / Comment
... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all—... Go to Quote / Comment
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance. Go to Quote / Comment