Adrienne Rich Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Magic, Culture

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

• Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

  Adrienne Rich

  Abortion, Violence, Firsts

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

• 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

• We have lived with violence far too long.

  Adrienne Rich

  Long, Violence

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