The mothers 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. – Adrienne Rich
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Women, don’t get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you’re twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. – Billy Elmer
