The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.

Quote by Adrienne Rich

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never...

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never...

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be...

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be...

The moment of change is the only poem.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power...

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power...

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in...

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in...

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real...

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real...

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human...

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human...

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some...

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some...

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when...

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when...

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and...

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and...

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory...

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory...

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains...

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains...