Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

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

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men - insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea - have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included

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

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