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

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.

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.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.