Adrienne RichThinkers

The Human condition is a phrase spoken of usually by those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

The Mother is, unlike union workers, divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; Their wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Mother is one in whose eyes, smile, and stroking touch, the child first reads the message: 'You are there!.'

Motherhood is the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement for it involves the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.

Patriarchy is erected on the terrain of the woman’s body.

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

Shopping is better than sex because if one is not satisfied after shopping one can make an exchange for something one really likes.

The Woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.