Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

I look forward and see myself look back.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.