There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.