Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
. . . if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
To write, you must first belong to yourself.
The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself.
Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.
Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion.
I could only stare, any sense that maybe I understood him evaporating as it always did. I'd glimpse something underneath, and he'd snatched it away so fast it left bruises that called me a fool for hoping for more.
Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me.
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.