Adrienne Rich
(May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012) Rich is an American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer who has been given awards, and turned some of them down. She is most recognized for her work in the women's movement, but is also involved in the social justice movement.
- "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" (1971)
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Famous quotes by adrienne rich:
“These are the things that we have learned to do
Who live in troubled regions.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“behind dry lips
a loaded gun.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“children are dying my death
and eating crumbs of my life.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Narrowed-down by her early editors and anthologists, reduced to quaintness or spinsterish oddity by many of her commentators, sentimentalized, fallen-in-love with like some gnomic Garbo, still unread in the breadth and depth of her full range of work, she was, and is, a wonder to me when I try to imagine myself into that mind.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Your small hands, precisely equal to my own—
only the thumb is larger, longer—in these hands
I could trust the world, or in many hands like these,
handling power-tools or steering-wheel
or touching a human face ...”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)