It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

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

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.