What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

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...?

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

We have lived with violence far too long.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.