I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made he….

We must use what we have to invent what we desire..

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?.

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male ….

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons..

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live..

All new learning looks at first like chaos..

Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home….

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness..

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher t….

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they….

Reality, the oppressor's tongue..

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.….

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the ….

The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious strug….

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still r….

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls..

The impulse to create begins - often terribly and fearfully - in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the….

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of….

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see..

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illumina….