We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

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

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.

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