Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

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

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