Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
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….
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life b….
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 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….
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs..
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….
Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else brea….
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….
Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young..
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture..
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again..
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness..
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….
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They ….
The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and….
Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!.
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust..
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness..
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….
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….
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power..