Quotes by Rich, Adrienne

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculin >>

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of th >>

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever. >>

Quotations about Language

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think abo >>

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone i >>

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a wa >>

We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as 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.

Rich, Adrienne