Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

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.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.