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

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

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclea….

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it..

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

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude..

I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the min….

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism..

Only where there is language is there world..

We have lived with violence far too long..

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with ….

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

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….

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

Reality, the oppressor's tongue..

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal mov….

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry..

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.….

The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, i….

[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who - for whatever reasons - are less conscious of….