If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

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

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.