“You want to ask, am I lonely?
Well, of course, lonely
as a woman driving across country
day after day, leaving behind
mile after mile
little towns she might have stopped
and lived and died in, lonely”
About This Quote
I imagine myself in this speaker's shoes, in her mind. I see myself driving down the country backroads of my small Iowa town; I see myself in a few short months traveling across the Midwest to my new home on the West Coast. I imagine myself in her mind, her lonely, wandering mind. And I understand.
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.”