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“Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. — Lily Tomlin”
― Amy McMillen, Reclaiming Control: Looking Inward to Recalibrate Your Life