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

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of "sexual preference" and the issue of civil rights, to become a politics of asking women's questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women--not a chosen few--shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.

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.

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

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.