It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.