False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

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

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

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

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.