Quote from: Love Topic

I question the more or less psychoanalytic perspective that the male need to control women sexually results from some primal male "fear of women" and of women's sexual insatiability. It seems more probable that men really fear, not that they will have women's sexual appetites forced on them, or that women want to smother and devour them, but that women could be indifferent to them altogether, that men could be allowed sexual and emotional-therefore economic-access to women only on women's terms, otherwise being left on the periphery of the matrix.


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Author Bio


  • NameAdrienne Rich
  • DescriptionAmerican poet, essayist and feminist
  • AliasesAdrienne Cecile Rich; Adrienne Cécile Rich
  • BornMay 16, 1929
  • DiedMarch 27, 2012
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author; Essayist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program; Bollingen Prize; Lambda Literary Award; National Book Award