Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.