Adrienne Rich Quotes About Oppression

Quotes about: Oppression

• In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

  Adrienne Rich

  Silence, World, Violence

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

• Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

  Adrienne Rich

  Sex, Race, Speak

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

• One line typed twenty years ago
  can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint
  to glorify art as detachment
  or torture of those we
  did not love but also
  did not want to kill.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Wall, Years

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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