I Think We Ought To Decide That

[t]here Is One And Only One Way To Possess That In Which We Are Defective, Therefore That Which We Need, Therefore That Which We Want. Become It.

Minority Art, Vernacular Art, Is Marginal Art. Only On The Margins Does Growth Occur.

To Die On A Dying Earth - I'd Live, If Only To Weep

Long Before I Became A Feminist In Any Explicit Way, I Had Turned From Writing Love Stories About Women In Which Women Were Losers, And Adventure Stories About Men In Which The Men Were Winners, To Writing Adventure Stories About A Woman In Which The Woman Won. It Was One Of The Hardest Things I Ever Did In My Life.

... Chastity Is Not Given Once And For All Like A Wedding Ring That Is Put On Never To Be Taken Off, But Is A Garden Which Each Day Must Be Weeded, Watered, And Trimmed Anew, Or Soon There Will Be Only Brambles And Wilderness.