Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise, many male children may be underdeveloped, or their genitals deformed or hidden and it is assumed that they are girls.

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.