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.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

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

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.