Adrienne Rich Quotes

No One Who Survives To Speak
new Language, Has Avoided This:
the Cutting-away Of An Old Force That Held Her
rooted To An Old Ground
the Pitch Of Utter Loneliness
where She Herself And All Creation
seem Equally Dispersed, Weightless, Her Being A Cry
to Which No Echo Comes Or Can Ever Come.
But In Fact We Were Always Like This,
rootless, Dismembered: Knowing It Makes The Difference.
Birth Stripped Our Birthright From Us,
tore Us From A Woman, From Women, From Ourselves
so Early On
and The Whole Chorus Throbbing At Our Ears
like Midges, Told Us Nothing, Nothing
of Origins, Nothing We Needed
to Know, Nothing That Could Re-member Us.

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