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

Quote by Adrienne Rich

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...

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...

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in...

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in...

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

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...

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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...

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...

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...

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...

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings...

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings...

Capitalism is founded on greed and envy

Capitalism is founded on greed and envy

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive...

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive...