The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

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

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.