They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of fami….

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layer….

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target fo….

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional….

To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than….

To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your….

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviol….

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?.

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but t….

It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to t….

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the ….

... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can underst….

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free..

The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never ….

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historica….

... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being.

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of cap….

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the exp….

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselve….

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!.

Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be ch….