What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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.