Famous Quotes | A life I didn’t...
A life I didn’t choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have to do.
- Adrienne Rich
Attribution: Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet, essayist, and lesbian feminist. The Roofwalker, lines 22-25 (1961). Later in the 1960s and the 1970s, Rich developed into a prominent feminist; in the mid-1970s, she also “came out” as a lesbian. When she wrote this poem, she was married and raising three young sons.
Categories: And Lesbian Feminist, Essayist, Life, Sex Roles: Female, Subordination Of Women
