For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

I've had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch

To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.

The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

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

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.