. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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.

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.