Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

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

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.