Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.

There are no honest poems about dead women.