The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?