Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Adrienne Rich
Born: May 16, 1929
Died: March 27, 2012 (aged 82)
Bio: Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist.
Known for:
- Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973)
- A change of world (1951)
- The Dream of a Common Language (1978)
- An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991)
Adrienne Rich Quotes