Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

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.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

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.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.