I Believe One Of The Hardest Things

If What We Need To Dream, To Move Our Spirits Most Deeply And Directly Toward And Through Promise, Is Discounted As A Luxury, Then We Give Up The Core -- The Fountain -- Of Our Power, Our Womanness; We Give Up The Future Of Our Worlds. (from "poetry Is Not A Luxury")

What I Most Regretted Were My Silences. Of What Had I Ever Been Afraid?

The Erotic Has Often Been Misnamed By Men And Used Against Women. It Has Been Made Into The Confused, The Trivial, The Psychotic, The Plasticized Sensation.

It Does Not Pay To Cherish Symbols When The Substance Lies So Close At Hand.

Guilt Is Only Another Way Of Avoiding Informed Action.