all deaths are one's own.

- Maureen Duffy

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

- Maureen Duffy

Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress …

- Maureen Duffy

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

- Maureen Duffy

Love is the only effective counter to death.

- Maureen Duffy

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

- Maureen Duffy

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

- Maureen Duffy

In all dying our ages are the same.

- Maureen Duffy

We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and …

- Maureen Duffy