"We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seem…"

"As feminists, we need to be looking above all for the greatness and sanity of ordinary women, and how these women hav…"

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters."

"I have to say that what I know I know through making poems."

"instead of poems about experiences I am getting poems that are experiences, that contribute to my knowledge and my em…"

"The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail."

"To become a token woman—whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters—is t…"

"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every …"

"What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must c…"

"we need to know where we have been: we need our history."