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

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

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

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

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

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