A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values -- racism, militarism, capitalism -- all packaged in one 'ideal' symbol, a woman.

We are the women men warned us about.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.