Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

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

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

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.