Occupation: Writer Birth: February 18, 1934 Death: November 17, 1992
Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side..
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength..
Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures..
Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever..
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior..
It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand..
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is….
Women are powerful and dangerous..
I am very, very happy for Alice Walker..
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance ….
And when the sun rises we are afraid it might not remain when the sun sets we are afraid it might not rise in the morning when our stomachs are full ….
I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you….
Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we….
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat..
My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources….
There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of c….
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action..
Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose..
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs..
The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid..
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and i….