Adrienne Rich Quotes About Assumption

Quotes about: Assumption

• Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

  Adrienne Rich

  Assumption, Knows

• Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.

  Adrienne Rich

  Eye, Self, Survival

• I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed 'patrivincialism' or patrochialism': the assumption that women are a subgroup, that men's culture is the 'real' world, that patriarchy is equivalent to culture and culture to patriarchy, that the 'great' or 'liberalizing' periods of history have been the same for women as for men.

  Adrienne Rich

  Real, Men, Intellectual

• motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

  Adrienne Rich

  Motherhood, Assumption, Mesh

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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