Famous Quotes - Tags - And Lesbian Feminist

  • ... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets,... More
  • ... it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless... More
  • ... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse....... More
  • ... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to... More
  • A life I didn’t choose
    chose me: even
    my tools are the wrong ones
    for what I have... More
  • A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to... More
  • Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a... More
  • Either you will
    go through this door
    or you will not go through.
    ...
    The door... More
  • False history gets made all day, any day,
    the truth of the new is never on the news
    False... More
  • For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the... More
  • I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide,... More
  • Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which... More
  • It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a... More
  • Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the... More
  • Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in... More
  • The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle,... More
  • The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to... More
  • The lie of compulsory female heterosexuality today afflicts not just feminist scholarship, but... More
  • The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society... More
  • The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. More
  • the true nature of poetry. The drive
    to connect. The dream of a common language. More
  • To work and suffer is to be at home.
    All else is scenery ... More
  • When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse... More
  • When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or... More

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