When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
Adrienne RichIn a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.
Adrienne RichLies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.
Adrienne RichAs a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
Adrienne Rich