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

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

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

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

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

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.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

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

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

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

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Its exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness it can also be confusing disorienting and painful.

The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits.

The connections between and among women are the most feared the most problematic and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

When a woman tells the truth, she creates the possibility for more truth around her.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.