The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.