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

... 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.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

The women's movement is a non-hierarchical one. It does things collectively and experimentally.

I am an artist and a political being as well.