A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.

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

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.