Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

TV has created a kind of false collectivity.