My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.