Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

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

The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.

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

There are no honest poems about dead women.

We are all in the process of becoming.