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Adrienne Rich Quotes about Inspirational

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

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

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.134, W. W. Norton & Company

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

1971 Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Collected as'WhenWe Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision', in College English, Oct1972.