Quotes by Rich, Adrienne

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from ea >>

The moment of change is the only poem. >>

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in >>

Quotations about Mothers

Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother. >>

Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is the >>

A mother who is really a mother is never free. >>

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

Rich, Adrienne