top of page
"The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Family quotes

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
Explore more quotes by Adrienne Rich

"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

"We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative."

"The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers."

"Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful."

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

"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."
bottom of page