Adrienne Rich Quotes about Feelings

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

Adrienne Rich

Feelings, Desire, Chamber

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

Adrienne Rich

Inspirational, Pride, Feelings

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

My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

Adrienne Rich

Children, Feelings, Suffering

Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”