Adrienne's Quotes

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

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 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

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths. — 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

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. — Adrienne Rich

What would it mean to live
in a city whose people were changing
each other's despair into hope?
You yourself must change it. — 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

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail. — Adrienne Rich

Always remember that somebody is praying for the opportunity that you have. — Adrienne Bailon

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich

When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you — Adrienne Clarkson

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

It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it. — Adrienne Martini

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

Experience is always larger than language. — Adrienne Rich

Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta! — Adrienne Bailon

Evil isn't capable of telling the truth. — Adrienne Woods

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters
that beak which grips her, she becomes. — Adrienne Rich

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds. — Adrienne Rich

What a messed up year this is going to be." Becky said after the laughter quieted down. "And it's only just the beginning. — Adrienne Woods

What the fuck?" That was me. Pete's not an f-word kinda guy. Me? My current record is eighty-two F-bombs in under a minute. — Adrienne Wilder

I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel. — Adrienne Rich

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. — Adrienne Rich

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines. — Adrienne Shelly

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

If the shoe fits, it's too expensive. — Adrienne Gusoff

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

Raised a bite of eggs in a mock toast. That's my brother. He may be an asshole but he's an asshole with flare. — Adrienne Wilder

I feel more helpless with you than without you. — Adrienne Rich

Reality, the oppressor's tongue. — Adrienne Rich

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

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell? — Adrienne Rich

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. — Adrienne Rich

They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. — Adrienne Rich

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle. — Adrienne Rich

She turned her can'ts into cans, and her DREAMS into plans! (Stuck on my screen, and always will be). — Adrienne Vaughan

You must see her pucker when she's a dragon."
"This pucker can light your ass on fire, missy. — Adrienne Woods

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. — Adrienne Rich

Any woman's death diminishes me. — Adrienne Rich

One of my favorite fall items is a turtleneck. Cozy pieces like that for the fall - cashmere, fluffy cream turtlenecks - I think that's so sexy. — Adrienne Bailon

I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts - that's not what I think of as sexy. — Adrienne Barbeau

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

It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin. — Adrienne Barbeau

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

If you can dream it, believe it, and are willing to put in the work for it, then you can achieve it! — Adrienne Thompson

Language is power ... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. — Adrienne Rich

Love, our subject:
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

I don't think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope — Adrienne Rich

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

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. — Adrienne Rich

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

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

This world gives no room
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

An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim. — 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

Who neither touched nor spoke?
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