Logo
Quote by Adrienne Rich
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belong

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…? – Adrienne Rich

Other quotes by Adrienne Rich

The mothers 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. – Adrienne Rich

Category:
War
Author
Adrienne Rich
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Adrienne Rich
Read Quote

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. – Adrienne Rich

Category:
Women
Author
Adrienne Rich
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Death
category

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. – Karen Armstrong

Category:
Death

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation. – Stanislav Grof

Category:
Death

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker

Category:
Death

There are only three events in a mans life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. – Jean de la Bruyere

Category:
Death

Random Quotes

Ive seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags. – Gina Gershon

Category:
relationship

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. – Ruth Benedict

Category:
War

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. – William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990

Category:
Environment

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. – Gene Tierney

Category:
Family