The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

...you look at me like an emergency

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

I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

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.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.