The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.

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