...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

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

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.