And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives.

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

There are no honest poems about dead women.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.