Adrienne Rich Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Feelings, Suffering

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

• We might possess every technological resource... but if 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.

  Adrienne Rich

  Running, Thinking, Romance

• Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Pride, Feelings

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

• The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

  Adrienne Rich

  Political, Feelings, Body

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

• Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

  Adrienne Rich

  Feelings, Desire, Chamber

• Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Sex, Loneliness

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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