I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

The password is a flicker of an eyelash.

A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.

It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.