Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

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

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or not to have children are still dependent on the far from neutral will of male legislators, jurists, a male medical and pharmaceutical profession, well-financed lobbies, including the prelates of the Catholic Church, and the political reality that women do not as yet have self-determination over our bodies and still live mostly in ignorance of our authentic physicality, our possible choices, our eroticism itself.

You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.