If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

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