What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

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

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.

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

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.