“The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.”
More from Adrienne Rich
“The woman I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.”
“Poetry has the capacity, in its own ways and by its own means, to remind us of something…”
“Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of…”
“My head is full of whispers, which tomorrow will be silent.”