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

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

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.