"Both my essays and plays attempt to explore a political question or contradiction through the mind or the heart. By t…"

"…The road that I have walked in my life as a mixed blood Chicana and as a lesbian has more and more put me…(pause) I …"

"After publishing Loving in the War Years (1983) which was very autobiographical, my own story had finally been told o…"

"…It’s more that the conventionality of the model makes it a domesticized view of desire and also that really what we …"

"I don’t think femme-butch categories necessarily reproduce male-female gender relations and stereotypes about lesbian…"

"Class, I think its class above all else. Because the way class operates in this country is related to race. What I ha…"

"I still believe in a Chicano literature that is hungry for change, that has the courage to name the sources of our di…"

"I read all the work of white women and the "bibles" of feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, and social femin…"

"When I finally lifted the lid to my lesbianism, a profound connection with my mother reawakened in me. It wasn't unti…"

"The amazing efficacy of patriarchy is that it is a covert operation. It is entre nos, just between us - man and woman…"