How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

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.

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

Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.