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

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

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

My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.