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.

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

Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

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

Women are a colonized people.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.