Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.

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

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.