I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

Without community, there is no liberation.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.