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

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

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

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

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

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.