Poetry is not a luxury.

Poetry is not a luxury.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

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.

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.

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.