No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. - Adrienne Rich

It (1968) was a year of intensifying political awareness for me: the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations, the Columbia strike.

A new century, even a new technology, doesn't of itself produce newness. It is live human beings, looking in all directions, who will do this.

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts. A distaste for the political dimensions of art, in this time and place, is a dangerous luxury. (p161, XIX: "The transgressor mother")