Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard wo...
The moment of change is the only poem.
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break...
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words...
As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning its government or by saying three times "As a woman my country is the whole world." -Notes Towards a...
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in lov...
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
To do something very common, in my own way.
They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons
Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that rises from earth and collects in the rain cloud and returns to earth over and over. But if it doesn't...
The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.
There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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