If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

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

Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.