Adrienne Rich

Matthew Rothschild interviews Adrienne Rich in the January 1994 issue of The Progressive magazine.

Here is the quote from Adrienne Rich in her book, On Lies, Secrets and Silence "Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions- predigested books and ideas, weekend encounters guaranteed to change your life, taking 'gut' courses instead of ones you know will challenge you, bluffing at school and life instead of doing solid work, marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short, simply to avoid conflict and confrontation. And this, in turn, means resisting forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us."