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.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.