The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. - Adrienne Rich 1 Share Now -
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. - Adrienne Rich 3 Share Now -
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. - Adrienne Rich 5 Share Now -
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. - Adrienne Rich 6 Share Now -
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. - Adrienne Rich 7 Share Now -
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet. - Adrienne Rich 8 Share Now -
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. - Adrienne Rich 9 Share Now -
