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

No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?

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 move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege