"I must be in touch with the earth. I can never mistake the source of inspiration and energy to be gender, it is somet…"

"She cried, and the women sang her back to sleep, willing a silence onto her. She defied them with her tiny speech-see…"

"I doubt that the natives can listen to an old woman like her. What can she tell them? This society has no respect for…"

"The dare was a large clearing in the center of the village. Those who were admitted to the dare knew the power of wor…"

"Our people know the power of words. It is because of this that they desire to have words continuously spoken and kept…"

"Nehanda came out of me like a dream. It has the feeling of a dream when I look at it now. And that suited it, because…"

"How can words be made still [in writing], without turning into silence? Silence is more to be feared than the agitati…"

"If speaking is still difficult to negotiate, then writing has created a free space for most women -much freer than sp…"

"Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger tha…"

"What were our lives compared to the survival of the earth on which we stood?"