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

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the...

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the...

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our...

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our...

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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...

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the...

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the...

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...

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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...

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around...

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around...

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...