Rich, Adrienne

"The body keeps the score, as they say now."

"To refuse what you have been offered is to begin again."

"The question is not whether we are capable of living differently, but whether we have the courage to try."

"Imagination is not luxury; it is necessity."

"We inherit more than blood; we inherit stories, silences, and struggles."

"The poem insists: we are not alone in our experience."

"To live is to choose, and to choose is to take responsibility."

"Language shapes our reality, but reality also shapes language."

"The most subversive thing a woman can do is tell the truth."

"We must imagine ourselves into a different future."

"The act of reading is an act of creation."

"Connection is not sentiment; it is survival."

"A society is measured by how it treats those it renders invisible."

"The personal narrative is a political act."

"We are bound together by what we refuse to forget."

"The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-creation."

"What the world offers us is not always what we need."

"To write is to risk being known."

"We learn by listening, not by speaking."

"The past does not disappear; it lives in our present."

"A woman's vision of herself is often first shown her in the eyes of others."

"The act of looking is itself a political act."

"To be fully alive means being fully aware of what is being done in our name."

"Language can create distance or create bridge; we must choose."

"The future is not predetermined; it is something we create."

"We are responsible for the meaning we make."

"The poem is a map of the territory of experience."

"To survive with integrity intact is a form of victory."

"The act of witness is an act of love."

"We must learn to trust our own experience, even when it contradicts what we've been told."