I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.