...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no new ideas waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten ones, new combinations, extrapolations and recognitions from within ourselves--along with the renewed courage to try them out.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?