Adrienne Rich Quotes


It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple


Citations

Rich, Adrienne. "Final Notations." An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991, W. W. Norton & Company, 1991, p. 57.

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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
  • Born: May 16, 1929
  • Died: March 27, 2012
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet, Non-fiction Writer, Essayist

Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse." Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined the "lesbian continuum," which is a female continuum of solidarity and creativity that impacts and fills women's lives.