Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

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.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

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

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.