As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.