Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

For silence to transform into speech, sound and words, it must first traverse through our female bodies. For the body to give birth to utterance, the human entity must recognize itself as carnal - skin, muscles, entrails, brain, belly. Because our bodies have been stolen, brutalized or numbed it is difficult to speak from/through then.

Gloria Anzaldua

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reserve- discourse.

Helene Cixous

This statement will not fail to arouse negative reactions. A woman's body? We don't want to hear any more about it! They talk about nothing but that! Both men and women do not hesitate to show their irritation or disgust as soon as the association body/feminine writing appears.

Trinh Minh-Ha

…in the circles where we face ourselves, we listen like a miracle,and I reclaim the song which is mine…

Janice Mirikitani, "Where Bodies are Buried"

Memory is contagious: if I remember, others close to me remember more. Memories are envious, vain; they have to appear, like stars. The fleeting memory-ette, the detail, thinks it deserves headlines. Memories are like us.,

"My Life in Theatre and Politics"

Every text one writes is autobiographical; anything else would be plagiarism.,

"My Life in Theatre and Politics"

You must do the thing you think you cannot do…

Eleanor Roosevelt