When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

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.

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.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

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.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

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