I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

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

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

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion