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Quotes from Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law — Adrienne Rich

1929–2012 United States

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
The beak that grips her, she becomes.

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake,
heavy with useless experience, rich
with suspicion, rumor, fantasy,
crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge
of mere fact.

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adrienne Rich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.