We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

If we don't risk anything, we risk even more.

The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

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