If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

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

I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.