I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.