Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

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

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare