Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Quote by Adrienne Rich

Topics: Lies Quotes, Silence Quotes, Words Quotes

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human...

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human...

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when...

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when...

The moment of change is the only poem.

The moment of change is the only poem.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains...

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains...

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory...

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory...

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be...

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be...

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and...

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and...

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real...

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real...

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and...

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and...

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the...

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the...

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around...

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around...

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the...

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the...

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power...

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power...