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.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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.

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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.