Olga Broumas Quotes

#1. Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

Olga Broumas

#2. I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

Olga Broumas

#3. Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

Olga Broumas

#4. I am a woman committed to
a politics
of transliteration, the methodology

of a mind
stunned at the suddenly
possible shifts of meaning - for which
like amnesiacs

in a ward on fire, we must
find words
or burn.

Olga Broumas

#5. When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

Olga Broumas

#6. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Olga Broumas

#7. Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

Olga Broumas