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Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
— Adrienne Bailon
We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.
— Adrienne Rich
To work and suffer is to be at home.
All else is scenery ... — Adrienne Rich
All else is scenery ... — Adrienne Rich
you're letting your emotions get the better of you,
— Adrienne Bell
You touched me in places so deep
I wanted to ignore you. — Adrienne Rich
I wanted to ignore you. — Adrienne Rich
I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and cried on parents' visiting day.
— Adrienne Shelly
There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.
— Adrienne Rich
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
— Adrienne Rich
She had to possess the courage to enter, through language, states which most people deny or veil with silence.
— Adrienne Rich
When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
— Adrienne Rich
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
— Adrienne Rich
All I could do was suck in air through my gaping mouth and pray I wouldn't pass out.
— Adrienne Wilder
I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!
— Adrienne Barbeau
The decision to feed the world
is the real decision. No revolution
has chosen it. For that choice requires
that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich
is the real decision. No revolution
has chosen it. For that choice requires
that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich
[the car] backfired a lot. Loud enough that when I drove in the wrong part of town and it let loose with a gas fart, people actually ducked for cover.
— Adrienne Wilder
Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
— Adrienne Rich
Sing 'em to remember.
Sing 'em because you remember. — Adrienne Kress
Sing 'em because you remember. — Adrienne Kress
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
— Adrienne Rich
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
— Adrienne Rich
Swatches of color to close the wounds. Lines to tie it down. Layers upon layers, until the sound of their voices formed a hum.
— Adrienne Wilder
A language is a map of our failures
— Adrienne Rich
If you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.
— Adrienne Rich
As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.
— Adrienne Rich
Christian love means two things at once: to recognize the Lord in one's neighbor and to recognize one's neighbor in the Lord.
— Adrienne Von Speyr
German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.
— Adrienne Monnier
I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.
— Adrienne Bailon
Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but that's OK - it's coming.
— Adrienne Bailon
Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.
— Adrienne Shelly
Evil isn't capable of telling the truth.
— Adrienne Woods
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.
— Adrienne Rich
Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'
— Adrienne Bailon
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
— Adrienne Rich
Experience is always larger than language.
— Adrienne Rich
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
— Adrienne Rich
All new learning looks at first like chaos.
— Adrienne Rich
Good Lord, you would lead angels down a sinful path and they would follow joyously.
— Adrienne Basso
Sleep comes hard. I'd rather lie awake and read.
— Adrienne Rich
I guess, that's why I'm so greedy with you," Ellis said. "You've given me a slice of life. Now I want the whole damn cake.
— Adrienne Wilder
We have lived with violence far too long.
— Adrienne Rich
TV has created a kind of false collectivity.
— Adrienne Rich
I feel more helpless with you than without you.
— Adrienne Rich
Having it all is easy if youre willing to work for it
— Adrienne Maloof
When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
— Adrienne Rich
And then there was an explosion.
— Adrienne Kress
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'
— Adrienne Rich
She turned her can'ts into cans, and her DREAMS into plans! (Stuck on my screen, and always will be).
— Adrienne Vaughan
The minister in our church: He spoke in a way that said there was a rage inside religion.
— Adrienne Kennedy
A friend of mine works for Autism Speaks. It's an amazing cause that is making a real difference in the lives of so many people.
— Adrienne Bailon
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
— Adrienne Rich
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
— Adrienne Rich
Can you remember? When we thought
the poets taught how to live? — Adrienne Rich
the poets taught how to live? — Adrienne Rich
What we see, we see
and seeing is changing — Adrienne Rich
and seeing is changing — Adrienne Rich
Hawk?
He gazed up at her, still crouched on the floor, ready to pounce if she so much as moved an inch. — Karen Marie Moning
He gazed up at her, still crouched on the floor, ready to pounce if she so much as moved an inch. — Karen Marie Moning
If you can dream it, believe it, and are willing to put in the work for it, then you can achieve it!
— Adrienne Thompson
Love, our subject:
we've trained it like ivy to our walls. — Adrienne Rich
we've trained it like ivy to our walls. — Adrienne Rich
I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.
— Adrienne Shelly
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
— Adrienne Rich
I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
— Adrienne Rich
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...
— Adrienne Rich
Lovely, not only did the truck look like it was on its last leg, it was going to take the environment with it.
— Adrienne Wilder
Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
— Adrienne Bailon
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
— Adrienne Rich
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
— Adrienne Rich
May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.
— Adrienne Maloof
The beauty of darkness
is how it lets you see. — Adrienne Rich
is how it lets you see. — Adrienne Rich
He is raw sex in a bottle, uncorked. And somebody needs to cork it!
— Karen Marie Moning
Why should the wild child
weep for the scientists
why — Adrienne Rich
weep for the scientists
why — Adrienne Rich
This world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being — Adrienne Rich
to be what we dreamt of being — Adrienne Rich
We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
— Adrienne Rich
Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.
— Adrienne Gusoff
By dawn you were pure electric. You pulsed like a star. You awoke in the last darkness before the light poured in.
— Adrienne Rich
But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.
— Adrienne Barbeau
I don't love duck nails, where the nails are really wide on top. I am not a fan of that!
— Adrienne Bailon
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
— Adrienne Rich
I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes ... are maps ... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail
— Adrienne Rich
A dream of tenderness
wrestles with all I know of history — Adrienne Rich
wrestles with all I know of history — Adrienne Rich
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
— Adrienne Rich
The scarf is soft
The scarf is blue
The scarf is us — Adrienne Frater
The scarf is blue
The scarf is us — Adrienne Frater
Who neither touched nor spoke?
whose nape, whose finger-ends
nervelessly lied the hours away? — Adrienne Rich
whose nape, whose finger-ends
nervelessly lied the hours away? — Adrienne Rich
You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.
— Adrienne Bailon
Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.
— Adrienne Rich
Did you shoot me again sweetheart?
— Adrienne Kress
Passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.
— Adrienne Rich
Truth built on a lie is still a lie.
— Adrienne Wilder
It wouldn't have been Heaven without Ariel.
— Adrienne Wilder
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
— Adrienne Rich
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
— Adrienne Rich
...because life is short and you too are thirsty.
— Adrienne Rich
To do something very common, in my own way.
— Adrienne Rich