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.

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

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

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