## Metadata - Author: [[Adrienne Rich]] - Full Title: Of Woman Born - Category: #books ## Highlights - A movement narrowly concerned with pregnancy and birth which does not ask questions and demand answers about the lives of children, the priorities of government; a movement in which individual families rely on consumerism and educational privilege to supply their own children with good nutrition, schooling, health care can, while perceiving itself as progressive or alternative, exist only as a minor contradiction within a society most of whose children grow up in poverty and which places its highest priority on the technology of war. ([Location 69](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00U75KJ7M&location=69)) - Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us. ([Location 113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00U75KJ7M&location=113))