... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change. It is an obscenity-an all-male hierarchy, celibate or not, that presumes to rule on the lives and bodies of millions of women.

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

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.