Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.
Experience is always larger than language.
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.
I feel more helpless with you than without you.
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.