Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

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.

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.