There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

I believe in permanent revolution.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.