Adrienne Rich Quotes About Daughters

Quotes about: Daughters

• How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.470, W. W. Norton & Company

• Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Personality

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

• We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Confusion

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

• Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Two

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

• It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Father, Creativity

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