Adrienne Rich - Truth Quotes

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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Adrienne Rich

False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news
False history gets written every day...
The lesbian archaeologist watches herself
sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing,
asking the clay all questions but her own.

Adrienne Rich

When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.

Adrienne Rich

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Adrienne Rich

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth' — truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

Adrienne Rich

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.

Adrienne Rich