Adrienne Rich Quotes

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Adrienne Rich

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 16, 1929 - March 27, 2012

Topics

LifeLoveMotherPassionWarChild

A shot is a lever; it's all it is. You don't open a car door differently each time. A car door is efficient - it opens and closes. So is a shot.

Jerry West

CarTimeDoorYouOpenDifferently

I am better at math than spelling.

Spike Jonze

I AmBetterMathSpellingThanAm

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Summer Sanders

GoodBestRedCollegeGrowing Up

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Shirley MacLaine

KnowledgeEyesExperienceSoulChild

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.

Ron Paul

CompromiseAmericaPlayWashington

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

Milo Yiannopoulos

FunnyPeopleFactsInterestingYou

I'm overly confident. I believe in myself 100 percent. I believe in my game, and I believe in my work ethic.

Jaylen Brown

WorkMyselfGameBelieveConfident

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

Dr. Dre

ChangeI AmThinkBackCareerGo

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

Chris Hardwick

LifeGoodTrainingLookingThinking

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

Christopher Knight

LifePositiveTodayArtWorldFeel

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets.

Anouska Hempel

SpaceChildDesignAustraliaGlass

If you see the roles that I've done so far, whether it was Gunahaon ka Devtaa, Chandragupta Maurya, or Rab Se, everything has been starkly different from each other.

Ashish Sharma

YouDoneEverythingSeeDifferent

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