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

Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work, waiting for children to grow up, or for the birth of a new child, or for menopause.

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.

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.

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

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