We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men….

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence..

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds..

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

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributarie….

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 ….

I came to explore the wreck..

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you….

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 ….

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious..

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness..

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary..

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside whi….

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….

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….

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

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be..

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break….

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough..

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….

In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge o….