... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.