Adrienne Rich Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

  Adrienne Rich

  Mothers Day, Children, Eye

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

• 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

• Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

  Adrienne Rich

  Eye, Survival, Vision

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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