Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

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

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

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