Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

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

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?