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.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.