“La donna che mente ha parecchi amici, e conduce un'esistenza di grande solitudine.”
Origine: Da On Lies, Secrets and Silence – Norton, 1979.
Adrienne Rich è stata una poetessa, saggista, insegnante e femminista statunitense.
“La donna che mente ha parecchi amici, e conduce un'esistenza di grande solitudine.”
Origine: Da On Lies, Secrets and Silence – Norton, 1979.
“Il momento del cambiamento è l'unica poesia.”
Origine: Da Images for Godard, v. 72, in The Will to Change – Norton, 1971.
An Atlas of the Difficult World
“Ogni diniego si droga di verità parziali.”
Origine: Da Lo spacco alla radice – Estro, Firenze, a cura di L. Borghi.
Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 195. ISBN 9788858022900
“Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.”
Origine: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
Origine: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”
Origine: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963), no. 3
Variante: A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes.
“These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.”
Origine: Diving Into the Wreck
Origine: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
As quoted in Ms. magazine (September 1979), p. 44
Turning the Wheel (1981), section 2
What Is Found There (1993), ch. 11
Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986), ch. 1
“No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.”
Blood, Bread and Poetry (1986), ch. 1