1. “Life on the planet is born of woman.”
2. “When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
3. “False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.”
4. “Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
5. “The mind’s passion is all for singing out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.”
6. “A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.”
7. “Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.”
8. “Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.”
9. “The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”
10. “The moment of change is the only poem.”
11. “Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
12. “You must write and read as if your life depended on it.”
13. “It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting and painful.”
14. “Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.”
15. “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
16. “Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.”
17. “Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.”
18. “The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.”
19. “Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.”
20. “We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”
21. “It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.”
22. “There must be those among whom we can still sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
23. “All new learning looks at first like chaos.”
24. “We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”
25. “In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.”
26. “The beauty of darkness is how it les you see.”
27. “Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.”
28. “Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.”
29. “Marriage is lonelier than solitude.”
30. “Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.”
