It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

...you look at me like an emergency

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

To do something very common, in my own way.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.