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

We are the women men warned us about.

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

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

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.