"All skills are perfected through the process of failure. Embrace loss as a necessary part of improvement."

“The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .”

Source : "Escape from Freedom". "Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination", Vol 1, No 2, 2006.

“When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.”

“I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.”

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”

“There are some things you can only learn in a storm.”

“There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.”

“When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.”

“The sea is as near as we come to another world.”

Source : Anne Stevenson (2005). “Poems 1955-2005”, Bloodaxe Books Limited