Anger is really disappointed hope.

You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

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.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?