Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

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

Your silence will not protect you.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

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

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions