Adrienne Rich Quotes about Violence

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company