It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.