Judy Grahn Quotes

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.