Women have been driven mad, gaslighted, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other's sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.


Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (ed. 2002)

Adrienne Rich Quotes

Women have been driven mad, gaslighted, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male...

Women have been driven mad, gaslighted, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male...

Women have been driven mad, gaslighted, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male...

Women have been driven mad, gaslighted, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male...