People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.