Famous Quotes

"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women."

Adrienne Rich on Women

More quotes about Women

• "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Women

• "I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

  Marilyn Monroe on Women

• "Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Women

• "The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Women

• "As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot."

  John Lennon on Women

More quotes by Adrienne Rich

• "They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?"

• "The moment of change is the only poem."

• "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

• "Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe."

• "The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers."