It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.

I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.