What we demand is new, decisive, and radical, revolutionary in the truest sense of the word.

how a word transforms us
seedling taking delicate hold
or a weed choking the tender plants
news enters us and puts down roots

We are the new they.

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.

The tone of voice influences the wisest of us and alters the force of a speech or a poem.

We need to get out of the old language.

I truly feel there is a new language coming about-look at the work of Meridel LeSueur, Sharon Doubiago, Linda Hogan, Alice Walker - it's coming from the women. Something has to be turned around. (1990)

Feminists always create new languages. The normative language is inadequate to say what we want to say and to do what we want to do.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

The egg is breaking, the chromosomes are splitting to go forward with a new pattern of life. Those of us who seem most alien . . . are the ones who are going forward to create the life as yet inchoate. We who are affected cannot make ourselves clear... This is the era when apocalyptic visions are to be fulfilled. We are on the brink of a new life, entering a new domain. In what language can we describe things for which there are as yet no new names? And how describe relations? We can only divine the nature of those to whom we are attracted, the forces to which we willingly yield obedience. . . .

We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Change is the very fabric of our time.