Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

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

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

Life on the planet is born of woman.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

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.