Adrienne Rich Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Children, Feelings, Suffering

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

• That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then, and perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.

  Adrienne Rich

  Responsibility, Warrior, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

• It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

  Adrienne Rich

  Suffering, Nerves, Resentment

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

• The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

  Adrienne Rich

  Liars, Lying, Silence

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

• I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.

  Adrienne Rich

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

• To work and suffer is to be at home.
  All else is scenery.

  Adrienne Rich

  Home, Suffering, Scenery

  Adrienne Cecile Rich (1951). “Selected poems, 1950-1995”, Salmon Publishing

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