As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

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