Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

To manage to smile and have a good laugh in the midst of difficult times makes you look younger.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.