There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")

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

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

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

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