6 quotes
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
The beak that grips her, she becomes.
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake,
heavy with useless experience, rich
with suspicion, rumor, fantasy,
crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge
of mere fact.
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 (1986)
A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (1963)
I think that passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry. (from "Power and Danger: Works of a Common Woman" 1977)
On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (1979)
Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. (from "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying")
Arts of the Possible (2000)