Adrienne Rich

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

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

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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