Adrienne Rich

"They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

"The moment of change is the only poem."

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

"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."

"The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival."