Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

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

In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.