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.

One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.

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.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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.

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.