Power is the ability not to have to please.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.