How shall we ever make the world intelligent of our movement? I do not think that the answer lies in trying to render feminism easy, popular, and ins….

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power..

The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on spe….

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do..

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot….

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail..

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever..

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it r….

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other..

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do wi….

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger..

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves..

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life..

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" t….

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an ….

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-….

An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terri….

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet..

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat s….

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see..