"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap, the coffee, the rice, to iron the pants, to braid the hair, to pull the day's water up from the well, to boil water for tea, to wash the children for school, to pull the vegetables and start the walk to market, to run to catch the bus for the work that is paid. I don't know when most women sleep.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

I feel more helpless with you than without you.