The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.