What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.